Question

I’m guessing this one is very simple but I’m just not sure how to google for it.

I have a User model with a Name column where name is a lowercased string. I want to configure my model so that string.titleize is called any time the name value is retrieved.

currently:

user = User.find(89)
user.name
==> 'larry david'

but i want

user.name
==> 'Larry David'

I want this built into the model so that I don’t have to call ‘.titleize’ in all of my views

thanks!

Answer 1

Override Rails’ attribute accessor method:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  def name
     read_attribute(:name).try(:titleize)
  end
end

Note: The try method will silently avoid a NoMethodError exception when the name attribute is nil.