Comments on: ActiveRecord: Overwriting attribute= http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2008/01/activerecord-overwriting-attribute.html Web Entrepreneur Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:49:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jimmy'z http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2008/01/activerecord-overwriting-attribute.html#comment-42031 Jimmy'z Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:44:23 +0000 http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2008/01/activerecord-overwriting-attribute.html#comment-42031 Cool! Thanks Ben. Cool! Thanks Ben.

]]> By: Ben Mabey http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2008/01/activerecord-overwriting-attribute.html#comment-42022 Ben Mabey Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:24:40 +0000 http://jimmyzimmerman.com/blog/2008/01/activerecord-overwriting-attribute.html#comment-42022 You can also just call the super.... Calling the super will also help prevent API changes if for whatever unlikely reason AR changes the naming of those methods or refactored them. def name=(value) super(value.capitalize) end For reading attributes you can also use the [] operator. You can also just call the super…. Calling the super will also help prevent API changes if for whatever unlikely reason AR changes the naming of those methods or refactored them.

def name=(value)
super(value.capitalize)
end

For reading attributes you can also use the [] operator.

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