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# redMine - project management software

# Copyright (C) 2006  Jean-Philippe Lang

#

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

# 

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

# GNU General Public License for more details.

# 

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

class UserPreference < ActiveRecord::Base

  belongs_to :user

  serialize :others

  attr_protected :others

  def initialize(attributes = nil)

    super

    self.others ||= {}

  end

  def before_save

    self.others ||= {}

  end

  def [](attr_name)

    if attribute_present? attr_name

      super

    else

      others ? others[attr_name] : nil

    end

  end

  def []=(attr_name, value)

    if attribute_present? attr_name

      super

    else

      h = read_attribute(:others).dup || {}

      h.update(attr_name => value)

      write_attribute(:others, h)

      value

    end

  end

  def comments_sorting; self[:comments_sorting] end

  def comments_sorting=(order); self[:comments_sorting]=order end

end