Rails - Nov 2013 - wrong number of arguements (1 for 0) on ActiveRecord::Base#send

So I''m not exactly using Rails, but just ActiveRecord. Though I felt
this would be more appropriate in the Rails forum than the general Ruby
forum.

I''m working on an app that interacts with databases, without having a
database of its own.

I have a class called Modeller, and a Modeller#retrieve_model(name)
method that takes a name, looks for a table matching that name, creates
a model that inherits from ActiveRecord::Base and returns it. It works
great.

So I can enter:

m     = Modeller.new(<params for connecting to db>)
model = m.retrieve_model(''page'')

And I get back a model called Page, connected to the database and ready
to go.

But a problem occurs when I try to call methods on it with
BasicObject#send.

I take a list of fields from a yaml file (user supplied) then attempt to
update the fields with BasicObject#send.

yaml file example -
  content:        some content
  parent_id:      1
  children_count: 0
etc.

So my code ends up like this:

model.send(''content'', ''some content'')

And it blows up with an error:

ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
   
/home/zatz/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.0.1
/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/read.rb:58:in
`__temp__37964756f59646''
   
/home/zatz/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/activerecord-4.0.1
/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:150:in `method_missing''

And I''m stumped. What''s going on?

A very big thank you ahead of time to whoever can help me figure this
out. I''m totally open to an alternative way of doing this too.

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Alright, I had a big brain fart with this one. I was confusing the 
syntax with define_method.

It doesn''t work because it''s calling
model.content(''some content'').

What I need is model.content = ''some content''.

So the correct invocation would be model.send(''content='',
''some
content'').

Sorry for that, total not-thinking on my part.

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