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:

Answer 1

Actually, Im using Rails 4 and I can't call my boolean column without the question mark

pry(main)> User.where(is_validated: false).first.is_validated
  User Load (0.9ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."is_validated" = 'f' ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT 1
=> nil
[13] pry(main)> User.where(is_validated: false).first.is_validated?
  User Load (0.8ms)  SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."is_validated" = 'f' ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT 1
=> false