Rails - Aug 2006 - Newbie : question about Rails naming conventions

Hi, I''m really new to Ruby on Rails and I''m going to use it
for my
personal webpage.

I would also like to use for one of my profesional projects, the problem 
is that our Database admin has its own conventions that does not respect 
Rails'' ones.

He uses its own conventions for naming tables AND fields names.

Is it possible to set up the table name and fields names for a model?
The field names that my DBA uses are really not human readable (for 
example : ARPONA5164 for the field name "title") and I don''t
want to use
them in my code. I would like to setup them once and after use them like 
Post.title and not Post.ARPONA5164.

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Hi again.

I''ve just read ActiveRecord::Base "Overwriting default
accessors" part
on Rails API. Is it a good solution to write this kind of code for each 
field name :

    def title=(val)
      write_attribute(:ARPONA5164, val)
    end

    def title
      read_attribute(:ARPONA5164)
    end

?

Thanks.

Nicolas Blanco wrote:
> Hi, I''m really new to Ruby on Rails and I''m going to use
it for my
> personal webpage.
> 
> I would also like to use for one of my profesional projects, the problem 
> is that our Database admin has its own conventions that does not respect 
> Rails'' ones.
> 
> He uses its own conventions for naming tables AND fields names.
> 
> Is it possible to set up the table name and fields names for a model?
> The field names that my DBA uses are really not human readable (for 
> example : ARPONA5164 for the field name "title") and I
don''t want to use
> them in my code. I would like to setup them once and after use them like 
> Post.title and not Post.ARPONA5164.

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On 8/10/06, Nicolas Blanco <slainer68@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Is it possible to set up the table name and fields names for a model?
> The field names that my DBA uses are really not human readable (for
> example : ARPONA5164 for the field name "title") and I
don''t want to use
> them in my code. I would like to setup them once and after use them like
> Post.title and not Post.ARPONA5164.
>
Yes, you can alias more readable names. You''ll just need to do some
config
in your model with Active Record.
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