[Rails] Re: Confirmation Checkboxes - any good ideas?

My approach on things like this has been to add the attribute to the
model with attr_accessor, and then setting up whatever validations I
need. E.g.

attr_accessor :terms_of_service

validates_acceptance_of :terms_of_service

Seems to work fine (I've had issues where I've been passing such a model
along a multi-action process by storing it in the session, though).

(Still not sure from a business/legal sense why you wouldn't need these
to be persistent attributes, however)

dwh

icke wrote:
> I have a site in development that I need to customer to confirm a few
> things before they can proceed to the payment page. I intend to
> present them with the relevant questions and then check that they have
> answered them e.g. have you read the T's & C's. Are you over 18? Are
> you resident in the UK etc etc. I do not need to record these
> necessarily.
>
> Is there a simple way of validating these in the controller and then
> returning the messages in the same way as Active Record would do so I
> can use the same form builder as the rest of the site (I do inline
> errors with ToolTip)?
>
> I have considered just implementing a model called "Confirmation" with
> a 1-1 relationship with order but I think this is a little overkill
> and the number of confirmations may change over time and vary. So I
> would need a to implement a confirmation answer model and a
> confirmation question model. All seems a bit complex. How about just
> serializing a hash as a database column with the questions as the key
> and the values entered?
>
> Has anyone got any good ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> O.
> >
>

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