Pat Maddox wrote: > I realize you didn't ask for all of that but I'm feeling a bit chatty. > > Pat
The more information the better. I never really did understand exactly what using eval() was supposed to accomplish, now I do. Chat away... I do want to point out that this is what the ActiveRecord::Base api has to say about the [] method: [](attr_name) Returns the value of the attribute identified by attr_name after it has been typecast (for example, "2004-12-12" in a data column is cast to a date object, like Date.new(2004, 12, 12)). (Alias for the protected read_attribute method). Notice anything wrong about the api call description? Should not this say: [attr_name] Returns the value of the attribute identified by attr_name... The reason that I raised this question to begin with was because I could not get "model_instance[](attr_name)" to work. Which is what the api is telling me to do the way that it is written. I came up with the alternative, write_attribute(attr_name), by looking at the code for []. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
