target is not a reserved word.  It is however used in ActiveRecord for their
associations.  That might be where you are running into problems.

/Shawn

On 6/19/07, Brendan Baldwin <rails-mailing-list@[...].net>  wrote:
> 
> 
>  I feel your pain.  I just posted about this after hitting the same issue
>  at work today.  I must have spent a few hours trying to figure out what
>  was wrong with our model, because in our case 'target' was an
>  association itself, which meant that the consequences of using it were
>  much stealthier and weirder:
> 
>  http://www.rubyfu.com/2007/06/transparent-proxies-part-2.html
> 
>  --Brendan
> 
>  Josh on Rails wrote:
>  > I'm working on a cost estimation tool, that allows each estimate created
>  > to
>  > override base assumptions of price, cost, etc.
>  >
>  > Everything was fine, until we said, "Let's add a 'target net revenue'
>  > property."
>  >
>  > So, the resource model got a "target" column. The override model got a
>  > "new_target" column.
>  >
>  > But, whenever I set resource.target, I don't get a resource at the end;
>  > I
>  > get target. In other words:
>  >
>  > old_resource = resource.clone
>  > resource.target = new_target
>  > resource == old_resource # false
>  > resource == new_target # true
> 
> 
>  --
>  Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> 
>  >
> 

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