Rails - Jun 2006 - Hiding an attribute

I am using a smallint database column to store several boolean flags.
The flags are accessible thru facade column accessors.  I''d like to
hide the database column so all access is thru the facade accessors.
How do I do it?

TIA,
  Jeffrey

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> I am using a smallint database column to store several
> boolean flags.  The flags are accessible thru facade column
> accessors.  I''d like to hide the database column so all
> access is thru the facade accessors.  How do I do it?
Module#private.

  class Foo
    def some_column
      puts "a value!"
    end

    def go_here_instead
      some_column
    end

    private :some_column
  end

  Foo.new.some_column        >> NoMethodError
  Foo.new.go_here_instead    >> a value!

http://lnk.nu/ruby-doc.org/9w5.html

-Drew

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> I am using a smallint database column to store several boolean flags.
> The flags are accessible thru facade column accessors.  I''d like
to
> hide the database column so all access is thru the facade accessors.
> How do I do it?
> 
> TIA,
>   Jeffrey
Good solution above. However, why would you want to do such a thing? 
Space savings? I think you''re spending too much time on some minute 
facet of the app instead of actually developing useful code.

Just my 2 cents.


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