# Column accessor available in console, not in view?!?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/column-accessor-available-in-console-not-in-view/115030>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 19, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/column-accessor-available-in-console-not-in-view/115030 "2007-09-19T22:02:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/column-accessor-available-in-console-not-in-view/115030/1 "2007-09-19T22:02:17Z")

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I did a simple migration…

* * *

class AddAdminDesignationToUsers \< ActiveRecord::Migration  
def self.up  
add\_column :users, :is\_admin, :boolean  
end

## def self.down remove\_column :users, :is\_admin end end

Now, if I go into the rails console, I can load a user from the DB and I  
get correct results… u.is\_admin? =\> false.

But if I put that in a view…

\<% if user.is\_admin? %\>  
blah  
\<% end %\>

I get an error…  
undefined method `is\_admin?’ for #User:0x47750ac

Any ideas why? I’ve restarted the server, and everything else I could  
think of.