This is what irritates me about Rails. It’s almost as if it does this to me personally.

That’s what I assumed. All three examples did it but when I dumped the output to the console, it sure returned false every single time.

Another point of annoyance – it was in the model but when I’d call it (with various permutations of it being feature_present?, Car.feature_present? or car.feature_present? Rails always threw an error saying it was an undefined method. In the helper, it found it.

Once again Rails gave me the shaft here. No matter how many times it was written the way the examples did it, the checked checkmark values were never appearing in that hash sent to the update action. I only saw them when I changed it which caused me to have a second hash which in turn caused me to have to save them manually.

Well, at least there the original doesn’t look like that … ‘twas a factor of porting over between screens and making it look like something else. One of those "don’t ask why" kind of things.

I’m going to give it another go … but damn if its annoying that these things give me so many errors when I do it their way. Recoding it always annoys me because I know it deviates from their way but it gets me working so much sooner.

Now that’s cool – I can definitely make use of that!