Hiding an attribute

Rails
1

I am using a smallint database column to store several boolean flags.
The flags are accessible thru facade column accessors. I’d like to
hide the database column so all access is thru the facade accessors.
How do I do it?

TIA,
Jeffrey

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Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

I am using a smallint database column to store several
boolean flags. The flags are accessible thru facade column
accessors. I’d like to hide the database column so all
access is thru the facade accessors. How do I do it?

Module#private.

class Foo
def some_column
puts “a value!”
end

def go_here_instead
  some_column
end

private :some_column

end

Foo.new.some_column >> NoMethodError
Foo.new.go_here_instead >> a value!

http://lnk.nu/ruby-doc.org/9w5.html

-Drew

3

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

I am using a smallint database column to store several boolean flags.
The flags are accessible thru facade column accessors. I’d like to
hide the database column so all access is thru the facade accessors.
How do I do it?

TIA,
Jeffrey

Good solution above. However, why would you want to do such a thing?
Space savings? I think you’re spending too much time on some minute
facet of the app instead of actually developing useful code.

Just my 2 cents.