On Jun 30, 8:12 am, GregD <gditr...@fuse.net> wrote: > All, > > Is there a way to reference a column named keys from a Model > instance? It will be very painful to rename the column from keys to > something else. This is not a ruby project. I'm just using ruby, > rspec, sequel to set up tests of the product/system. So, is there a > way to reference the column and not the method for 'keys'? > > What I'm trying to to is: > > model_instances.keys.should == <some-value>
You use Model#[]: model_instance[:keys] > However, I'm not getting the value of th instance's column of keys. > It is running the method keys and returning the array of keys. > > I did not design the DB and like I said this is not a ruby system. > I'm just using ruby, rspec and sequel to test the system. So, please > no smartazz answers like 'that is stupid, rename the column' Anytime you have a column name that overlaps with one of the standard method names, you need to use Model#[]. All the column reader methods do is call Model#[] with the name of the column. Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sequel-talk" group. To post to this group, send email to sequel-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sequel-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sequel-talk?hl=en.
