[Rails] Formatting data drawn from a DB

[Jean-François]

Hello Jodi,

> you may also try this technique. You can use an after_find Model
> callback to format data.
>
>    protected
>    def after_find
>      self.phone = "#{self.phone_before_type_cast[0..2]}-#
> {self.phone_before_type_cast[3..6]}" if !self.phone.nil? and
> self.phone_before_type_cast.length == 7
>      self.phone = "(#{self.phone_before_type_cast[0..2]}) #
> {self.phone_before_type_cast[3..5]}-#{self.phone_before_type_cast
> [6..9]}" if !self.phone.nil? and self.phone_before_type_cast.length
> == 10
>    end

Sorry for my arrogance, but what an ugly code !

Refactory men, where are thou ?

     -- Jean-François.

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