Rails - Mar 2006 - ActiveRecord and columns with spaces or strange characters

I''m interested in modifying ActiveRecord to do some column name
transformations.

Right now I have a database with some interesting column names...

 sequence
 computername
 part #
 warrany exp. date

ActiveRecord doesn''t even complain about these columns... in fact, I
can
load data just fine. However, I can''t retrieve data from the
''part #'' field
or the "warranty exp. date" field because the methods are not found.
Most
likely, they can''t be built automatically by active record.

Can someone guide me a bit on how I would go about addressing this issue?
I''m not entirely sure how the automatic mapping lifecycle works so I
don''t
know where to insert code to do some translations.  I would assume that I
have to do translations on the reader methods as well as the writer methods.

Help would be much appreciated!
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