On Oct 12, 10:31 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> wrote: > Joshua Partogi wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Coming from the Java & Hibernate world, I was confused when trying out > > this piece of line of code: > > class Task < ActiveRecord::Base > > def status=(status) > > status = 'P' > > write_attribute(:status, status) > > end > > end > > This won't quite work. But before I try to improve it...what are you > trying to do? Set status to P no matter the argument that the function > is called with? >
Well there are more logic there actually to set the status. I was hoping that this accessors would be able to set or change the value of :status. But the behaviours doesn't seems to be like that. So what is this accessors used for? Is it only for the view level? Regards, -- Certified Scrum Master http://blog.scrum8.com | http://jobs.scrum8.com | http://twitter.com/scrum8 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
