# Nifty scaffolding and virtual attributes

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nifty-scaffolding-and-virtual-attributes/178285>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 2, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nifty-scaffolding-and-virtual-attributes/178285 "2009-11-02T06:20:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Kashyap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@C\_K\_Kashyap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/C_K_Kashyap)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nifty-scaffolding-and-virtual-attributes/178285/1 "2009-11-02T06:20:37Z")

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Hi,  
I was trying to get virtual attributes working for a model…but looks  
like with models generated by nifty\_scaffolding  
the “unknownattribute” exception gets silently eaten … can someone  
please tell me how to get it working.

–  
Regards,  
Kashyap

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Kashyap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@C\_K\_Kashyap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/C_K_Kashyap)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nifty-scaffolding-and-virtual-attributes/178285/2 "2009-11-02T10:07:07Z")

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On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:19 PM, C K Kashyap [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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Where’s the code that you’re having issues with?

-Conrad