enabling featured articles

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/app/models/menu_item.rb b/app/models/menu_item.rb
index e86be0e..054e7ee 100644
--- a/app/models/menu_item.rb
+++ b/app/models/menu_item.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,28 @@
 class MenuItem < ActiveRecord::Base
   
-  translates :title
+  default_scope :conditions => {:type => "MenuItem"}
   
-  acts_as_list
+  translates    :title
+  
+  acts_as_list  :scope => :type
+  
+  before_save   :determine_type_id
+  
+  
+  private
+  
+    def determine_type_id
+      case self.class.name
+        
+      when "MenuItem"
+        self.type_id = 1
+      when "FeaturedArticle"
+        self.type_id = 2
+      end
+    end
 end
+
+
+class FeaturedArticle < MenuItem
+  default_scope :conditions => {:type => "FeaturedArticle"}
+end
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