== ColumnWithSpaces

A simple plugin that enables ActiveRecord's accessor methods and dynamic finders to work with legacy
database tables that have column labels containing spaces. Include the module in your your model for
a legacy database table and then you can substitute underscores for the column label spaces in your
attribute accessor and dynamic find_by method calls.


== Prerequisites

Tests only pass against Rails 2.0.2 at present. Rspec 1.1.3 was used to write the specs

== Install

* git clone git://git.dentz.net/git/db_column_with_spaces.git vendor/plugins
* script/plugin install svn://svn.dentz.net/svn/plugins/db_column_with_spaces/trunk

== Example

Given a record with following column labels and values:

	first name:	John
	last name:	Smith
	middle_name:	Kyle

Define a model for a legacy table:

	class LegacyEmployee < ActiveRecord::Base
	 include DentzSinclair::ColumnWithSpaces
	end

And now you can use underscores in finders and accessors.

	>> @employee = LegacyEmployee.find_by_last_name('Smith')
	=> #<LegacyEmployee id: 1, first name: "John", last name: "Smith", middle_name: "Kyle">
	
	>> @employee.first_name
	=> "John"
	
	>> @employee.first_name = "Walter"
	=> "Walter"
	
	>> @employee.save
	=> true
	
	>> @employee
	=> #<LegacyEmployee id: 1, first name: "Walter", last name: "Smith", middle_name: "Kyle">

Copyright (c) 2008 [Eirik Dentz Sinclair], released under the MIT license

== Acknowledgements

Inspiration:
* http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2034

Testing and design:
* http://alexyoung.org/articles/show/44/rails_plugin_testing_guide
* http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/will_paginate