ruby - Using question mark character in Rails/ActiveRecord column name

Question

In keeping with Ruby's idiom of using a question mark in boolean methods (e.g. person.is_smart?), I'd like to do the same for an ActiveRecord field in Rails:

rails generate model Person is_smart?:boolean

I haven't actually run the above statement. I assume that database fields can't have a question mark in them. Will rails deal with this appropriately? Is the best practice to simply leave question marks off of models?

Using Rails 3.2.8

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12559142/using-question-mark-character-in-rails-activerecord-column-name

Answer 1

Rails will automatically generate the method smart? if there is a field named 'smart'.