On 6 June 2011 19:01, Ants Pants wrote:
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> Colin, to answer your earlier question about whether I had a method
> overriding one of the attribute calls ...
Just for the record I can't claim the prize for that call, it was Chris Kottom.
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On 5 June 2011 22:53, Colin Law wrote:
> On 5 June 2011 21:35, Chris Mear wrote:
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On 5 June 2011 21:35, Chris Mear wrote:
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What a great list, ask some questions and get excellent answers. Thanks Chris.
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On 5 June 2011 10:15, Colin Law wrote:
> I have never used the for_charity? syntax though. There does not seem
> much point when it is a boolean.
I've been using it ever since reading dire warnings in the first
edition of Agile Web Development with Rails:
"[To represent true or false, some dat
Sorry, I misunderstood the original message. Ran similar tests in my local
environment with same Ruby / Rails, and wasn't able to get a similar
outcome. Is there anything in your model that could be overriding the
dynamically created accessor?
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Ants Pants wrote:
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On 4 June 2011 07:47, Ants Pants wrote:
> When creating a boolean attribute in ActiveRecord, you get a ? method for
> free. Sadly, it's returning false for a true value. Does anyone know what
> might be going on?
> From my console (for_charity: true). Same behaviour on Rails 2.3.8 and
> 2.3.11
> r
i know about the storage issue (or at least I thought I did) but what I am
saying is that the returned values are different between the attribute
for_charity and for_charity?
Surely that has nothing to do with how the values are stored? I sent the
output form console in my original email to show t
The actual representation of any attribute type in Rails will depend on the
underlying DBMS as the mapping changes from platform to platform. But if we
assume we're talking about SQLite as an example, it uses a SQLite boolean
which is actually stored as 0 for FALSE or 1 for TRUE, and both of these
When creating a boolean attribute in ActiveRecord, you get a ? method for
free. Sadly, it's returning false for a true value. Does anyone know what
might be going on?
>From my console (for_charity: true). Same behaviour on Rails 2.3.8 and
2.3.11
ruby-1.8.7-p302 > m.for_charity?
=> false
ruby-1.8
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