Model with type attribute

Rails
1

Dear all,

I have a table with a column named “type” and I 'd like to access the
type
field of the correspondant model object but I get a deprecation warning
when
I use the following code :

modelObject.type

“type deprecated use class instead”

How can I access such a named field in rails ?

Johan

Johan Duflost
Analyst Programmer
Belgian Biodiversity Platform ( http://www.biodiversity.be)
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (http://www.belspo.be )
Tel:+32 2 650 5751 Fax: +32 2 650 5124

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On Jan 5, 2006, at 5:29 AM, johan duflost wrote:

How can I access such a named field in rails ?

Johan

Johan Duflost
Analyst Programmer
Belgian Biodiversity Platform ( http://www.biodiversity.be)
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (http://www.belspo.be )
Tel:+32 2 650 5751 Fax: +32 2 650 5124

Johan-

type is a reserved word in ruby for now. So call your type field

something else like mytype or kind.

Cheers-
-Ezra Z.
Yakima Herald-Republic
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On 1/5/06, Ezra Z. [email protected] wrote:

Johan-

    type is a reserved word in ruby for now. So call your type field

something else like mytype or kind.

Actually, you can just explicitely define #type and #type= in the model
class.

class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
def type
read_attribute :type
end

def type=( new_type )
  write_attribute :type, new_type
end

end

–
Regards,
John W.

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