Richard JE Cooke

How to make a custom getter & setter for an ActiveRecord (Ruby on Rails) model's attributes/properties

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base

# don't use attr_accessible here as it interferes/duplicates the methods below

# setter
```php
def shirt=(value)
  write\_attribute(:shirt_fee_in_cents, value)
end

# getter
def shirt
  if self[:shirt].present?
    return self[:shirt]
  end
  AverageHuman.default_shirt
end