On Jul 19, 9:11 pm, David Kahn <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> However, when I do Person.find(27) I get:
>
> #<Person id: 27, ssn: "l+IV+c55qywTjPd+bW+IGA==\n" >
>
> And then if I do p = Person.find(27), then I get the decrypted ssn.
>
> I know that find must be processing under the override methods, but I dont
> understand why, as I thought if you overrode a method it would hold in all
> situations for the AR object.

inspect ( which is how objects are displayed by the console ) uses
read_attribute when building up its representation of the object

Fred
>
> David

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