24 Mar 2022   rails


AR instances have a method #attribute_in_database. Sometimes things donโ€™t make sense, someone has created a method with the same name as the column:

create table users (id int, email citext);
class User < ApplicationRecord
  def email
    Time.current.strftime("%A, %B %C")
  end
end

User.first.email
=> "Thursday, March 20"

But you actually wan the email:

User.first.attribute_in_database("email")
=> "admin@example.com"
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