# How allow editing in fields

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-allow-editing-in-fields/261019>\
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**Created:** [February 23, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-allow-editing-in-fields/261019 "2021-02-23T12:34:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![pedro.desantis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@pedro.desantis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pedro.desantis)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-allow-editing-in-fields/261019/1 "2021-02-23T12:34:31Z")

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Good morning ,  
I need to allow editing in fields in ruby.  
how do I do that ?

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**Author:** ![pcl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@pcl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pcl)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-allow-editing-in-fields/261019/2 "2021-02-23T16:03:29Z")

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Do you mean you want a getter and setter on an instance variable? There is [attr\_accessor](https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.0.0/Module.html#method-i-attr_accessor) for that.