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

Answer 1

You can do it without writing any code at all :) You just need to set the default value for the column in the database. You can do this in your migrations. For example:

create_table :projects do |t|
  t.string :status, :null => false, :default => 'P'
  ...
  t.timestamps
end

Hope that helps.