How to set default values in Rails?

Question

I\'m trying to find the best way to set default values for objects in Rails.

The best I can think of is to set the default value in the new method in

Answer 1

i answered a similar question here.. a clean way to do this is using Rails attr_accessor_with_default

class SOF
  attr_accessor_with_default :is_awesome,true
end

sof = SOF.new
sof.is_awesome

=> true

UPDATE

attr_accessor_with_default has been deprecated in Rails 3.2.. you could do this instead with pure Ruby

class SOF
  attr_writer :is_awesome

  def is_awesome
    @is_awesome ||= true
  end
end

sof = SOF.new
sof.is_awesome

#=> true