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respond_to?

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respond_to?(name, include_private = false) public

A Person object with a name attribute can ask person.respond_to?(:name), person.respond_to?(:name=), and person.respond_to?(:name?) which will all return true. It also define the attribute methods if they have not been generated.

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
end

person = Person.new
person.respond_to(:name)    # => true
person.respond_to(:name=)   # => true
person.respond_to(:name?)   # => true
person.respond_to('age')    # => true
person.respond_to('age=')   # => true
person.respond_to('age?')   # => true
person.respond_to(:nothing) # => false

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# File activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb, line 235
    def respond_to?(name, include_private = false)
      return false unless super
      name = name.to_s

      # If the result is true then check for the select case.
      # For queries selecting a subset of columns, return false for unselected columns.
      # We check defined?(@attributes) not to issue warnings if called on objects that
      # have been allocated but not yet initialized.
      if defined?(@attributes) && self.class.column_names.include?(name)
        return has_attribute?(name)
      end

      return true
    end

respond_to?

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