On Jun 9, 1:16 am, Ali Akhtarzada <ali.akhtarz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh ok. Did not know that. Thanks!
>
> After I got rid of the '@' part they were still returning nil. I had an
> attr_accessor :first_name, :last_name defined. Things worked after getting
> rid of that. I guess having attr_Accessor with the same names overrides the
> method calls or something?
You don't need attr_accessor for attributes from the database -
attr_accessor will overwrite (or prevent the generation of) the
accessors active record provides.
Fred
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Michael Pavling <pavl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8 June 2010 13:56, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> > > pepe wrote:
> > >> On Jun 8, 3:10 am, Michael Pavling <pavl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> def full_name
> > >>> [first_name, last_name].join(" ")
> > >>> end
>
> > >>> ...now, if you're missing a first or last name, you don't get extra
> > >>> white-space padding
>
> > > Actually, I believe you do, unless you compact the array first (posting
> > > from iPhone away from irb right now, so can't verify).
>
> > 100% correct... sorry - my real methods do compact before the join...
> > just not when I write them in Gmail! :-)
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