Mark Dodwell's profile - rails

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Monday, September 13 2010

5622 boolean_attr_accessor was created in Ruby on Rails

Mark Dodwell created the ticket at 7:31 AM
I'd like to propose adding a boolean_attr_accessor core extension to Module:
```
  class Foo
    boolean_attr_accessor :bar
  end

  foo = Foo.new
  foo.bar = "1"
...
```

Sunday, January 31 2010

2432 build_association nullifies existing model object in has_one association was updated in Ruby on Rails

Mark Dodwell commented at 7:15 PM

I'm also seeing this behaviour. Seems very undesirable, surprised nobody else has commented yet.

Are other people seeing this?

Sunday, December 06 2009

3165 ActiveRecord::MissingAttributeError after update to rails v 2.3.4 was updated in Ruby on Rails

Mark Dodwell commented at 1:16 AM
I ran into this same bug, and side-stepped it by changing the way I was setting my attribute in #after_initialize:
```
def after_initialize
  self.token ||= "fooba...
```

Wednesday, February 18 2009

2011 assert_template :symbol passes whatever was created in Ruby on Rails

Mark Dodwell created the ticket at 9:36 PM

When you use a symbol for assert_template, it passes regardless of what symbol you pass.

For example, if the actual template rendered is 'foo/new.html.erb', the...