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2006 Oct 27
5
Purpose of after_initialize in ActiveRecord?
All, I have a quick question - is the purpose of implementing after_initialize to allow custom attribute initialization for AR descendants? I have been overriding initialize whenever I require custom setup of my model classes, like so: def initialize(attributes = nil) super self.Status = ''G'' end So I have a couple of questions: 1) Could I achieve the same