Re: [WellRailed] A question of style

In that case, I'd append a '!' onto the method name, so you know it's going to 
have that effect:

    my_project.paid!

This specific example looks kind of state-machine-esque: I know some Rails 
state machine plugins use the '!' convention.


On 25/01/2012, at 10:01 AM, Henry Maddocks wrote:

> Something that has bothered me for a while is should model methods that set 
> attributes call save or should the caller do it?
> 
> ie. This...
> 
> class Project < ActiveRecord::Base
>   def paid
>     self.state = PAID
>     self.save
>   end
> 
> end
> 
> or this...
> 
> my_project.paid
> my_project.save
> 
> 
> 
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