Naming Boolean columns in Rails

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Let's say I have a Dog and I want to store if it is trained in Rails. Conventionally, Ruby methods that return booleans have names that end with ?. Should I call the database column trained?, or should I call the database column trained and have a method

class Dog
  def trained?
    trained
  end
end

The latter option seems inefficient, particularly when I have lots of boolean fields.

Or is there some other alternative I'm missing?

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