Class: Section

Inherits:
ActiveRecord::Base
  • Object
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Defined in:
app/models/section.rb

Overview

This model is used to represent a website section. It has specified acts_as_content_node from Acts::ContentNode::ClassMethods.

Specification

Attributes

  • title - The title of the section.

  • description - The description of the section.

  • frontpage_node - The node that is the frontpage of this Section. Can be blank.

Preconditions

  • Requires the presence of title.

  • Requires frontpage_node to be nil if the Section has a frontpage.

  • Requires frontpage_node of the Section to be a descendant of the Section.

  • Requires frontpage_node to not be a Section with a frontpage_node.

Child/parent type constraints

* A Section accepts nodes of any type.
* A Section can be inserted into nodes of any accepting type.

Direct Known Subclasses

Site

Class Method Summary (collapse)

Instance Method Summary (collapse)

Class Method Details

+ (Object) max_number_of_columns

Returns the maximum number of sidebox (content box) columns that are allowed for this content type.



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# File 'app/models/section.rb', line 73

def self.max_number_of_columns
  4
end

+ (Object) owms_type

Returns the OWMS type.



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# File 'app/models/section.rb', line 104

def self.owms_type
  I18n.t('owms.overview_page')
end

Instance Method Details

- (Object) accessible_children_for(user, exclude_content_types = ['Image','Attachment'])

Returns the children content nodes of this section for the given user. By default images and attachments are excluded.



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# File 'app/models/section.rb', line 99

def accessible_children_for(user, exclude_content_types = ['Image','Attachment']) 
  node.accessible_content_children(:for => user, :exclude_content_type => exclude_content_types)
end

- (Object) content_tokens

Returns the description as the token for indexing.



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# File 'app/models/section.rb', line 78

def content_tokens
  description
end

- (Object) frontpage

Returns the frontpage if one is present.



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# File 'app/models/section.rb', line 88

def frontpage
  has_frontpage? ? self.frontpage_node.content : nil
end

- (Boolean) has_frontpage?

Returns true if the section has a frontpage.

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'app/models/section.rb', line 83

def has_frontpage?
  !self.frontpage_node.nil?
end

- (Object) last_updated_at(user)

Returns the last update date, as seen from the perspective of the given user.



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# File 'app/models/section.rb', line 63

def last_updated_at(user)
  conditions = [ "NOT nodes.content_type IN (?)", [ 'Image', 'Attachment' ] ]
  descendant_conditions = self.node.descendant_conditions
  conditions.first << " AND " << descendant_conditions.shift
  conditions.concat(descendant_conditions)
  child = Node.find_accessible(:first, :for => user, :select => 'nodes.updated_at', :order => 'nodes.updated_at DESC', :conditions => conditions)
  child ? child.updated_at : self.updated_at
end

- (Object) set_frontpage!(node)

Sets the frontpage to the given node.



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# File 'app/models/section.rb', line 93

def set_frontpage!(node)
  self.update_attributes(:frontpage_node => node)
end