Attribute Getter without the Recursion
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You may find yourself adding a custom getter method for one of the attributes in a Rails model. It might look something like this:
This method will fall on its face as it quickly expands the stack recursively calling itself. Instead, you can tell ActiveRecord
that you want the value of that attribute without invoking the getter Instead, we want to get the value of the attribute without invoking the model's getter. ActiveRecord
allows us to do this with the method. Check it out: