I like the idea because I've also suffered with this problem before.
What about passing the class as the second argument like in serialize?
class Monkey < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_virtual :birth_date, Date
end
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Aleksey Magusev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Periodically i need to use *attr_accessor* in models, which will be used
> in views like *date_select*. In this case will be raised
> error<https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_assignment.rb#L166>
> because
> of klass
> method<https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_assignment.rb#L171>
> call
> for nil.
>
> What do you all think about adding attar_virtual method in ActiveModel to
> solve this problem?
>
> Variants:
> 1) Columns hash <https://gist.github.com/3055907>
> 2) Struct <https://gist.github.com/3055890>
> 3) Class <https://gist.github.com/3055931>
> and more.
>
> References:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4971523/attr-accessor-for-a-date-and-problems-using-select-date
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5463337/in-rails-is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-type-youd-like-an-attr-accessor-to-be-an
> ...
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