Getter and Setter with non DB property

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I can't find how do i created a getter and setter property for a non db property. what i have done isnt working, i have a cnt mass assign error.

Here is what i've done: attr_accessor :creator_is_participant

  def creator_is_participant     @participe   end

  def creator_is_participant=(participe)     if participe == true       @participe = true     else       @participe = false     end   end

Greg

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Hi,

I can't find how do i created a getter and setter property for a non db property. what i have done isnt working, i have a cnt mass assign error.

The mass assignment error is probably not related to this (at least not what you have shown)

Here is what i've done: attr_accessor :creator_is_participant

What this does is create a getter and setter method of that name that stores its data in @creator_is_participant - if you're going to redefine both of those methods then you don't need that

def creator_is_participant=(participe) if participe == true @participe = true else @participe = false end end

This may have unintended consequences further down the line because it puts you at odds with what the ruby world considers to be true/false: nil and false are false, everything else has the truth value true

Fred