title: Accessing model properties in Rails
body: <p>So basically I have a controller. something like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>def show
   @user = User.find[:params[id]]
   #code to show in a view
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>User has properties such as name, address, gender etc. How can I access these properties in the model? Can I overload the model accesser for name for example and replace it with my own value or concatenate something to it. Like in the show.html.erb view for this method I might want to concatenate the user's name with 'Mr.' or 'Mrs.' depending upon the gender? How is it possible?</p>