Strange behavior when override a default attribute, maybe a bug?

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello, I have a strange behavior and don't know why.

If I override attributes from AcitveRecord object like below:

  def end_date=(date)     date = date.to_date unless date.blank?     write_attribute(:end_date,date)   end

  def end_date     date = read_attribute(:end_date)     I18n.localize(date) if date.present?   end

Everything will work fine but when I try call text_field in a form_for block I get the database value and ignore end_date getter.

<%= f.text_field :end_date, :class=>"date", :size=>"10" %>

The text_field will be filled with 2008-12-10 (mysql date) instead of 10/12/2008 ( I18n localized)

Anyone know why we get this behavior?

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Some idea? I still don't understand why text_field load values from database instead of model.rb

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Sorry for duplicated threads, it was a mistake, I opened new one here http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/7e82b30f719ad1ac ...