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 - [Staging Changes Within Vim](git/staging-changes-within-vim.md) 
 - [Verbose Commit Message](git/verbose-commit-message.md)
 
+## rails
+
+- [Attribute Was](rails/attribute-was.md)
+
 ## ruby
 
 - [Limit Split](ruby/limit-split.md)
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+# Attribute Was
+
+When modifying the attributes of an `ActiveRecord` object, you may want to
+know what values the modified attributes used to have. `ActiveRecord` gets
+some handy methods from the `ActiveModel::Dirty` module that allow you to
+check these values out even if the object's attributes were changed before
+you received it (though you are out of luck once it has been saved).
+Just add `_was` onto the end of the attribute in question.
+
+```ruby
+>> pokemon.name
+=> "Charizard"
+>> pokemon.name = "Squirtle"
+=> "Squirtle"
+>> pokemon.name
+=> "Squirtle"
+>> pokemon.name_was
+=> "Charizard"
+>> pokemon.save
+   ...
+=> true
+>> pokemon.name_was == pokemon.name
+=> true
+```
+
+[source](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/Dirty.html)