Rails: How do I create a default value for attributes in Rails activerecord's model? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Because I encountered this issue just a little while ago, and the options for Rails 3.0 are a bit different, I'll provide another answer to this question.

In Rails 3.0 you want to do something like this:

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  after_initialize :default_values

  private
    def default_values
      self.name ||= "default value"
    end
end