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...JDBC-drivers are loaded correctly. Now I made a model mandate_file.rb which contains class MandateFile < ActiveRecord::Base # fix non-standard table and primary key name conventions set_table_name "STAMM" set_primary_key :D_LFDNR # fix the upper-cased named columns alias_attribute :id, :D_LFDNR alias_attribute :annotext_az, :D_AZ alias_attribute :name_creditor, :D_RUBGE end When I try to create a simple object via the console using "m = MandateFile.new" I get the following list of errors: ActiveRecord::JDBCError: Invalid column number from arjdbc/jdb...

OK, so I get that ActiveRecord determines model attributes through reflection of the table schema. Handy for many cases, but not mine. I need to override that and provide my own mapping of attribute names to column names to use the mapped names throughout the application code. I''ve been poking around looking for where in AR''s hierarchy I can can inject this mapping, but

Anybody know of a way to alias a column in ActiveRecord such that you could reference it via a different symbol in your view for view purposes? Like my column is named X but I want to display it as Y and maybe I have an accessor named Y set up on the model so that when I "call" Y from the view (and controller?) I''m actually manipulating the column X? Hope that makes sense.

>> reload! Reloading... => true >> puts Class < Module true => nil >> puts Module < Class false => nil >> puts Module < Object true => nil >> puts Object < Module false => nil >> Object.parent => Object The above indicates that the Class object instance inherits from the Module object instance and the Module object instance