Question

I’ve got a User model which has fullname and email attributes.

I need to overwrite method fullname somehow so it will return value of email when fullname is nil or empty.

Answer 1

I haven’t tried it with ActiveRecord, but does this work?

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # stuff and stuff ...

  def fullname
    super || email
  end
end

It depends how ActiveRecord mixes in those methods.