Is there a way to make Rails ActiveRecord attributes private?

Question

By default, ActiveRecord takes all fields from the corresponding database table and creates public attributes for all of them.

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Answer 1

Stumbled upon this recently. If you want private writing and reading and public reading something like this

class YourModel < ActiveRecord::Base

  attr_reader :attribute

  private

  attr_accessor :attribute


end

seems to work fine for me. You can fiddle with attr_reader, attr_writer and attr_accessor to decide what should be exposed and what should be private.