Question

I’m building a rails app around several existing databases, the column names used in the existing databases do not work well at all with the rails association conventions. Is there a way to set column name aliases in a model similar to the way you can

class User < Activerecord::Base
self.set_table_name "users"
end

Could I set column name aliases when the existing db columns will not work with default rails association naming conventions?

Answer 1

In your model, just setup alias for attributes (columns). For example:

class User < Activerecord::Base
  alias_attribute :new_column_name, :real_column_name
end