Issue with hyphen

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I have a column name that has a hyphen.. not the table name but column name.. I am calling something like: @online = Status.find(:first, :conditions => {:status => 'online'} )

first problem I notes using the IRB console is to be able to get information out of the array I need to specify with element like @online[0].status this works.. but I was hoping to just use @online.status but *anyways* my problem is with hyphens.. I can't do this: @online[0].collection-owner it just wont work I try with '' "" and `` around it.. as well with #{} hehe just in case..

any suggestion? thanks.

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any suggestion? thanks.

Change the column name’s hyphen to underscore.

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any suggestion? thanks.

Change the column name's hyphen to underscore.

Or write your own accessors to read/write it

def collection_owner    self['collection-owner'] end

and similarly add the writer method

Fred