How to access virtual attributes in the model

Rails
1

I’ve got an artist form. In this form I’ve got attributes that do not
exist in the model that the form belongs to. However, I would like to
submit these values for later processing.

My virtual attributes in the form are:

  <%= f.label :foobar %>
  <%= f.text_field :foobar %>

In the artist model, I created a getter:

def foobar
end

When the form is submitted, I am able to access the value of the
virtual attribute by doing, for example: puts params[:artist][:foobar]
in the controller (in the create method):

def create
@artist = Artist.new(params[:artist])

# return the value of the virtual attribute
puts params[:artist][:foobar]
...

end

I would like to do the same thing in the model? How can foobar be
accessed in the model? Or is this not possible?

2

I might be missing something but it should be as simple as using the
name of the method:

‘self.foobar’ or ‘foobar’ should return whatever the method returns.

On Oct 8, 1:54 am, Christian F. [email protected]