Make AR setter methods private?

rubyonrails-talk
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There's also the fact that the instance's setter/getter methods are only defined later, and so you can't do class Customer    private :first_name end Since there is no first_name method at that point. The same applies obviously to making the methods protected. You could probably achieve something in after_initialize though.

Fred

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Right, but you can certainly define the methods yourself:

class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base   def first_name     read_attribute :first_name   end   private :first_name end

Pat