And in these cases you don't know if these fields are boolean or not. If you are choose to store the visible column as string ["yes", "no] so you will not have the query method.
I like this method as it is. For me it is very useful and give me the possibility to not care about what is the datatype of the field. Rafael Mendonça França http://twitter.com/rafaelfranca https://github.com/rafaelfranca On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas < rr.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Em 31-05-2012 11:48, Maksym Melnychok escreveu: > > @ Rafael Mendonça França >> >> legacy databases storage must be concern of corresponding database >> adapter, if a field is of boolean type, whatever that means on storage >> level of particular database, that field must be treated as boolean in >> rails >> on the model level. >> >> i'm not suggesting to drop such functionality for boolean attributes, only >> for non-booleans where #{attribute}? literally makes no sense when you >> read it. >> >> methods count would be decreased because rails would generate query >> method only for boolean attributes. >> >> > I guess Rafael meant another thing. You have boolean fields in PostgreSQL > but someone might prefer to use some old ANSI types, like INTEGER for > storing such booleans for some reason. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To post to this group, send email to > rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.**com<rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-core+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-core%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
