One alternative in terms of dynamically adding an attribute to a model instance (without having to have pre-defined any attr_... in the class):
... place = Place.new place.name = place.name place.id = place.id place['address'] = external_api_place_data.address ... >From then on, for that instance, you can call place.address, and it will show up in place.to_json (since to_json is generated from place.attributes, which now has a k/v for address in attributes). Jeff On Oct 25, 8:16 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 Oct 2011, at 16:00, "Lukas M." <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > > > hm.. no luck with that either. when i try to print out the places object > > in the console (logger.debug @place.to_yaml), "address" is missing. > > For json at least you could override the as_json method to add the attributes > you want. > > Fred > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > -- > > 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
