From: Caleb Tennis <caleb@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T20:42:21+09:00
Subject: Re: rails columns name conflict

> to the model class which may not be the correct fix, but at least it
> let me work on it a bit more. Anyway, the row name "type"
> clashes/conflicts with the ruby method of the same name. Is there a way
> to change the row mappings so that db column type maps to/from
> Record.rectype or something similar?

You can work around this by doing something like this in your model:

def type
  read_attribute("type")
end

def type=(a)
  write_attribute("type", a)
end