Does anyone else finds attribute query methods semantically confusing? Hi,
Consider this code: post = Post.new(:visible => true, :url => "http://com";) if post.visible? puts "ima visible!" end if post.url? puts "ima url! (wait wat? o_0)" end Does this feel right to you? In case with post.url? i read it as "Hey post object, are you an url?" which is apparently not what the code will do. So it seems like semantically perfect flag checks go together with totally confusing(for a reader) way of checking whether an attribute is present or not. I would generate attribute query methods only for boolean attributes. Regards, Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-core/-/YqYSFrZrLWIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
