Rails - Jun 2005 - ActiveRecord attribute names

What technique is typically used to change the name of the attributes 
for an active record so that they do not match the column names in the 
database?

ex.

in DB:
Table Person:
ID int
NAME varchar
YEARS int

in ActiveRecord
person.id
person.name
person.age

Thanks,

Rich Collins

I would do it like this but I am still learning.

def age
  self.years
end

def age=(new_age)
  self.years=new_age
end

Jean

On 6/6/05, Rich Collins <rcolli2-odAbcf0Mc9JJm/Hvfsr4+Q@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> What technique is typically used to change the name of the attributes
> for an active record so that they do not match the column names in the
> database?
> 
> ex.
> 
> in DB:
> Table Person:
> ID int
> NAME varchar
> YEARS int
> 
> in ActiveRecord
> person.id
> person.name
> person.age
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich Collins
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