From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-05-09T05:37:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about instance_eval

On May 8, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Pat Maddox wrote:

> t.instance_eval { foo = 'foo' }

Ruby will always see the above as a local variable declaration.   
There is no way around that.

> I also know that t.instance_eval { @foo => 'foo' } would work in this
> case.  However, I'm trying to set a Rails attribute, so I have to go
> through the method accessor.

You've showed one way to handle it.  Another is the use  
write_attribute(), if we are talking about ActiveRecord.

James Edward Gray II