Rails - Jan 2011 - Why won't write_attribute(:price, value*100) work in the console?

Hi,

I''m confused as to why this code example (from a book) won''t
work.
They want to store a price in cents, but be able to set it and query it
in Euros. To this end they are overwriting the getter and setter
methods.

In my model:

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  def price
    Product.read_attribute(:price)/100.0
  end
  def price=(value)
    Product.write_attribute(:price, value*100)
  end
end

In the console:
r = Product.new
=> #<Product id: nil, name: nil, price: nil, enabled: true, created_at:
nil, updated_at: nil>

r.price = 10
NoMethodError: undefined method `write_attribute'' for
#<Class:0x6182658>

There is no mention of a typo in the book''s errata, write_attribute
doesn''t appear to have been removed from rails, so I''m
guessing
something changed with rails which makes this not work.

I did some googling and saw that shorthand for read/write_attribute() is
self[]

I tried the following and it worked great:

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  def price
    self[:price]/100.0
  end
  def price=(value)
    self[:price] = value*100
  end
end

r = Product.new
=> #<Product id: nil, name: nil, price: nil, enabled: true, created_at:
nil, updated_at: nil>

r.price = 10
=> 10

Could anyone tell me why the first example produces a NoMethodError and
the second one works just fine?

Thanks very much.

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On Jan 14, 3:39 pm, Jim Burgess
<li...-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Could anyone tell me why the first example produces a NoMethodError and
> the second one works just fine?
>
because read/write_attribute are instance methods, but you''re trying
to call them on Product (ie a class). self.read_attribute (or just
read_attribute) should work fine

Fred

> Thanks very much.
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Cheers Fred,

That was actually embarrassingly obvious.
Thanks for your help.

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