ok thanks that got it working. I think I had this working before like that, but then changed it because of confusion over the usage of self. I thought self was used to define class-level methods. Apparently the usage is different in instance methods? It is partly addressed here
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RubyHeadScratching On Nov 19, 1:56 pm, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 19, 6:19 pm, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > thanks for the response, but can anyone provide a simple example of > > the proper way to access and change an attribute from within an > > instance method? > > You just need to call the accessor methods, same as for people outside > the class. the only subtlety is that to set it you need to do > self.attribute_name = value (as attribute_name = value would be > interpreted as you trying to set a local variable) > > Fred > > > I've worked through AWDwR, re-read the ActiveRecord and Ruby sections, > > am currently going through wiki.rubyonrails.org and the Reference > > Docs, and still haven't found it. > > > On Nov 19, 11:55 am, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > On 19 Nov 2008, at 16:48, Brian wrote:> What's wrong? I'm assuming I'm > > > missing something basic, but it's > > > > pretty confusing. > > > > attributes aren't instance variables > > > > Fred > > > > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
