Rails - Sep 2006 - making an attribute private in ActiveRecord

Hi there

I''m wondering which is the right way to make an attribute of an
Activerecord class private so not accessible from the outside of the
class itself.
Let''s say that my SQL schema for the class is something like this, just
to make it simple

Elements table

id int
title varchar
numvalue int

and my activeRecord class will be this way

class Element < ActiveRecord::Base
  def outvalue
    numvalue*100
  end
end

I want to forbid the access to the method element.numvalue because I
need to have the value accessed from the external classes only with the
outvalue method.
Please note that overwriting or aliasing the value method with outvalue
is not a suitable solution for me.

I''ve tried this
http://rails.techno-weenie.net/question/2006/3/7/making_ar_attriibutes_private
but simply doesn''t work, what happens in this case is that the new
defined methods are there and raise an exception when called since they
are private methods, but the exception is raised in "method_missing"
so
the ActiveRecord class will provide his standard accessor method
through method_missing so in the end nothing change and the methods are
still public.

Thanks

Paolo


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