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.

I think that it\'s reasonable not<

Answer 1

Making the setting private does generate ActiveRecord error.

I put access control code in the overwritten method of the public setter by checking the caller:

def my_private_attribute=(val)
  if (caller.first.include?('active_record/base.rb') || caller.first.include?('app/models/myclass.rb'))
    self[:my_private_attribute] = val
  else
     raise Exception.new("Cannot set read-only attribute.")
  end
end