Set the default value for publication_scheme explicitly in an after_initialize callback, because the usual mechanism for setting default values (whatever that is) does not seem to work with attributes that are translated by the globalize2 plugin

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/app/models/public_body.rb b/app/models/public_body.rb
index 41bafa718..d5538fb6e 100644
--- a/app/models/public_body.rb
+++ b/app/models/public_body.rb
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ class PublicBody < ActiveRecord::Base
 
     translates :name, :short_name, :request_email, :url_name, :notes, :first_letter, :publication_scheme
 
+    # Make sure publication_scheme gets the correct default value.
+    # (This would work automatically, were publication_scheme not a translated attribute)
+    def after_initialize
+      self.publication_scheme = "" if self.publication_scheme.nil?
+    end
+
     # like find_by_url_name but also search historic url_name if none found
     def self.find_by_url_name_with_historic(name)
         found = PublicBody.find_all_by_url_name(name)