In Rails you can’t have a column named format in a table as it is a reserved Ruby word. Fair enough. But how then can you handle a database that has a column named that in Rails without using views?
It turns out to be surprisingly logical; modify your Rails model with two new methods. You need a getter and setter so for example:
def dialect return self.format end def dialect=(value) self.format = value end
Now my model has a method of dialect which gets and sets to format in the database.
