From: Anthony Hrvojic <a.hrvojic@...>
Date: 2005-11-09T01:02:13+09:00
Subject: Can ActiveRecord handle columns containing spaces?

Hello,

I'm using Rails 0.14.3 (upgraded this morning in case it would solve
this) with an existing SQL Server database and I'm running into a
problem where one of my models fails to instantiate seemingly due to a
single column containing a space in its name, which I guess interferes
with dynamic attribute generation.

The exception I get in my browser looks something like this:

(eval):1:in `class_eval': compile error
(eval):1: formal argument cannot be a constant
def Spaced Column; raise NoMethodError, 'missing attribute: Spaced
Column', caller unless @attributes.has_key?('Spaced Column');
(v=@attributes['Spaced Column']) &&
ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::ColumnWithIdentity.string_to_time(v);
end

c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1545:in
`class_eval'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1545:in
`class_eval'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1545:in
`define_read_method'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1530:in
`define_read_methods'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1528:in
`each'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1528:in
`define_read_methods'
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1478:in
`method_missing'

Modifying the schema is probably not an option, so I'm hoping someone
may have a different approach.

Thanks!