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I have an ActiveRecord model with a cattr_accessor. The class attribute is set up like this: class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base cattr_accessor :my_attribute end Because I need to give #my_attribute environment-specific values, I try to set this attribute in environments/development.rb like so: MyModel.my_attribute = 3 But this leads to odd and erratic behavior when #my_attribute is called from a controller. Sometimes MyModel.my_attribute returns 3,...

...for a single attribute such that if the value is an integer, it displays with no decimal point (e.g. "1"), but if it is non-integer, it displays with a decimal point (e.g. "1.25"). The easiest way to do this seems to be if I could override the to_string method for my_model.my_attribute.to_s. Is there a way to do this? Or a better way altogether? thanks, Jeff -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m trying my best to follow the skinny controller/fat model concept, and I''ve got a series of callbacks (that I''m about to move into observers) running on a few models. Based on what these callbacks do to the data (it''s implementing business rules), I''d like to add some type of message on the state of the model *without* invalidating it. For example: