Rails - Apr 2010 - Getter and Setter with non DB property

Hi,

I can''t find how do i created a getter and setter property for a non db
property. what i have done isnt working, i have a cnt mass assign error.

Here is what i''ve done:
 attr_accessor :creator_is_participant


  def creator_is_participant
    @participe
  end

  def creator_is_participant=(participe)
    if participe == true
      @participe = true
    else
      @participe = false
    end
  end

Greg
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On Apr 18, 12:49 pm, Greg Ma
<li...-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can''t find how do i created a getter and setter property for a
non db
> property. what i have done isnt working, i have a cnt mass assign error.
>
The mass assignment error is probably not related to this (at least
not what you have shown)
> Here is what i''ve done:
>  attr_accessor :creator_is_participant
What this does is create a getter and setter method of that name that
stores its data in @creator_is_participant - if you''re going to
redefine both of those methods then you don''t need
that
>
>   def creator_is_participant=(participe)
>     if participe == true
>       @participe = true
>     else
>       @participe = false
>     end
>   end
This may have unintended consequences further down the line because it
puts you at odds with what the ruby world considers to be true/false:
nil and false are false, everything else has the truth value true

Fred

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