= Active Record Defaults

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== Instructions

Allow you to easily specify default values for attributes on new model objects. Eg:

  class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
    defaults :country => 'New Zealand', :type => 'Unknown'
    
    default :last_name do |person|
      person.first_name
    end
  end
  
You can also define a defaults method like so:

  class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
    def defaults
      self.first_name = "Jonathan"
    end
  end
  
The default value is only used if the attribute is not present in the attributes hash:

  p = Person.new
  p.country # "New Zealand"
  
  p = Person.new(:country => nil)
  p.country # nil
  
== Installation

  script/plugin install http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/active_record_defaults
  
== Help

Feel free to email with any problems, suggestions, bugs etc...

  jonathan dot viney @ gmail . com