How to create an object in ActiveRecord without initialize method?

Question

Consider a model without an initialize method, defined as follows:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base  
end

It has 2 properties: name & age.

It is possible to create a new object by calling User.new('Joe Brown', 21)? Is there another "shorthand" way of creating the object?

Or do you have to define an initialize method in order to do this in one line?

Answer 1

With ActiveRecord:

User.new(:name => "Joe Brown", :age => 21)

Answer 2

You can also specify the fields :

User.new :name => "Joe Brown", :age => 21

or

User.new name: "Joe Brown", age: 21