Rails: accessing field value from model method

Question

Where title is a field on the table in the database, why does calling @title return nil?

Unbelievably, accessing model fields from inside a method on that model is undocumented.

Answer 1

Think about how you would access the info from outside the model:

model_instance.field_name

Therefore, from within the model you simply call

field_name

you can call instance methods from within that instance.