Describing Records: to_label

When ActiveScaffold needs to present a string description of a record, it searches through a common list of record properties looking for something that responds. The search set, in order, is: :to_label, :name, :label, :title, and finally :to_s. So if your schema already has one of those fields, it’ll be automatically used. But you can always define a to_label method to customize the string description.

Example:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

	
ActiveScaffold will automatically use this name method to describe a
	
record of this type

  def name

    “#{first_name} #{last_name}”

  end

end

class ForumPost < ActiveRecord::Base

	
Assuming that every Post has a title attribute, ActiveScaffold will 

  #automatically use that to describe a record of this type

end

class Car < ActiveRecord::Base

	
But you can always just define your own to_label method

  def to_label

    “#{year} #{model}”

  end

end