Class Animal
In: app/models/animal.rb
Parent: ActiveRecord::Base

schema.rb snippet: 

  create_table "animals", :force => true do |t|
    t.column "position",      :integer
    t.column "description",   :text
    t.column "noun_class_id", :integer
    t.column "kind_id",       :integer
  end

Methods

disambiguation   names_like  

Public Class methods

names_like(name_string)

Unlike other nameable items, the main part of animals names is most commonly preceded by qualifying adjectives, so it makes most sense to allow for a wildcard at the beginning rather than the end of the names_like search. i.e. a search for names_like ‘Pigeon’ should return ‘Common Bronzewing Pigeon‘

[Source]

    # File app/models/animal.rb, line 40
40:   def Animal.names_like name_string
41:     Name.find(:all, :conditions => [ "object_type = ? AND LOWER(name) LIKE ?",
42:                                       self.to_s, '%' + name_string.downcase])
43:   end

Public Instance methods

disambiguation()

Returns the ABC for an animal, which is only appropriate for Groote. Could be generalised or done away with completely.

[Source]

    # File app/models/animal.rb, line 25
25:   def disambiguation
26:     classification = self.classifications.find(:first, :conditions => "system = 'Anindilyakwa Biological'")
27:     disambiguation_parts = []
28:     disambiguation_parts << classification.hierarcy.join(" -> ") rescue ""
29:     disambiguation_parts << "like " + classification.siblings.first.animals.first.primary_names rescue ""
30:     if disambiguation_parts.empty?
31:       return nil
32:     end
33:     return disambiguation_parts.join(" ")
34:   end

[Validate]