How to override “new” method for a rails model

Question

In my rails app I have a model with a start_date and end_date. If the user selects Jan 1, 2010 as the start_date and Jan 5, 2010 as the end_date, I want there to be 5 instan

Answer 1

I guess you want to set default values for your model attribute ?

There's another solution than overriding ; you can set callbacks :

class Model

before_create :default_values
def default_values
  ...
end