Ruby on Rails

On Jan 31, 2:29 am, Rodrigo Ruiz <rodrigo.ru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought they where attr_accessor method.
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> Thank you for clearing things up for me.

To add a little more info, the attribute values are stored in the
@attributes / @attributes_cache hashes

Fred
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> On Monday, January 30, 2012, Peter Vandenabeele <pe...@vandenabeele.com>
> wrote:> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Rodrigo Ruiz <rodrigo.ru...@gmail.com>
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> >> Thank you, but I knew that, I did that (use self to do what I want)
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> before I asked the question.>> I'd just like to know why can't I use @first_name instead of
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> self.first_name, to me it seems like the same thing inside the model.
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> > They are not:
> > @first_name is an "instance variable". You could set it like this:
> >   @first_name = user.first_name
> > but it is not automatically set, and it is also not typically used like
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> > A more typical use would be:
> > @user = User.find(params[:id])
> > and then you can use @user in the controller, but also in the views,
> > due to the set-up of Rails.
> > self.first_name is a method that is dynamically provided by
> > ActiveRecord , based on the available columns for the table
> > "users" in the database.
> > HTH,
> > Peter
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