adding a method to an ActiveRecord Object

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I’ve already pulled my object from the database. Now I want to add a method. What I’m doing is adding the username to the activerecord object so I’ll have the name and user_id. How can I do this. The code below fails in the view. It appears it’s overwriting the rest of my object

def self.find_with_author(id) @article = Article.find(id) logger.error(“user id = #{@article.user_id}”)

@user = User.find(:first, :conditions => ["id = ?",@article.user_id

]) @article[‘author’] = @user.login end

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I figured it out. I forgot to explicitly return the correct value. Is there a better way of doing this. it feels a little wrong to add items directly to the hash.

def self.find_with_author(id) @article = Article.find(id) logger.error(“user id = #{@article.user_id}”) @user = User.find(:first, :conditions => [“id = ?”,@article.user_id]) @article[‘author’] = @user.login @article

end