Piers, you must be effing kidding me.

Dan

The reason I created these was for simple dirtiness checking on an attribute.

class SwitchBox < ActiveRecord::Base
  bool_attr_accessor :button_pressed
  after_save :reset_buttons
 
  def press_button_one
    self.button_pressed = true
    # Do button one things
  end
 
  def press_button_two
    self.button_pressed = true
    # Do button two things
  end
 
  def reset_buttons
    if button_pressed?
      # Do cleanup things
      self.button_pressed = false
    end
  end
end

Strictly for convenience.

:recondite?

:set_recondite

unset_recondite

toggle_recondite

I tend to think of boolean accessors as code smells though…