Rails - Sep 2006 - why doesn't this work (setting attribute in "before_create")

Hi,

Can anyone spot why the below doesn''t work?

* I have a "created_by" column in my create table in the dB
* I have a "before_create" line, which definitely gets called
* I tried a few different ways to set the "created_by" attribute in
the
model but it doesn''t seem to work, i.e. doesn''t appear in the
database
============================class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
	before_create :generic_fields
	private
		def generic_fields
			created_by="test text"      	<=== DOESN''T SET IT
			self.created_by="test text"      <=== DOESN''T SET IT
			@created_by="test text"      	<=== DOESN''T SET IT
		end
end
=============================> self.created_by=       <== Not set (in
database it''s not set either)

Tks

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bump (anyone able to point out why this doesn''t work below please -
thanks)

On 9/10/06, Greg Hauptmann
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone spot why the below doesn''t work?
>
> * I have a "created_by" column in my create table in the dB
> * I have a "before_create" line, which definitely gets called
> * I tried a few different ways to set the "created_by" attribute
in the
> model but it doesn''t seem to work, i.e. doesn''t appear in
the database
> ============================> class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
>         before_create :generic_fields
>         private
>                 def generic_fields
>                         created_by="test text"          <===
DOESN''T SET
> IT
>                         self.created_by="test text"      <===
DOESN''T SET
> IT
>                         @created_by="test text"         <===
DOESN''T SET
> IT
>                 end
> end
> ============================> => self.created_by=       <== Not
set (in database it''s not set either)
>
> Tks
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >
>

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solved it guys (just in case someone started to look at this)

- "self.created_by = Suberb.current_user_gregs"  as the syntax worked
but
noting
- doh!  My database column was a datetime not a string (prior to fixing this
the column was showing NULL)

I wonder whether rails should have really picked up on this error?   The
only way I was able to discover this was via code/db review.


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