Comments on: Tableless models in Rails

By: Michał Szajbe

Michał Szajbe — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:22:31 +0000

By defining columns you can specify their types. That is useful when you use multiparameter attributes (like Date or DateTime types).

So there would be no difference in presented example, but if I added some Date field to the model, attr_accessor wouldn’t work well.

Karl Smith — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:11:48 +0000

Why not use:

attr_accessor : recommendable_type, : recommendable_id, : email, : body

and continue on with your validations. I’ve been using ‘attr_accessor’ with all the advantages you list above. Is there a difference?

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:06:22 +0000

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