Hi. I have an AR model named Order, and a field in the DB named expired. I dont want this field to be modified from outside the model. Therefore I have declared a private method expired=(value) in my Order model. This works fine in development and production; If I call o.expired nil I get a "NoMethodError: Attempt to call private method", and if I use o.update_attributes(expired => nil) I get "ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError: unknown attribute: expired". However in test environment donot get such exceptions. I can easily use my private methods in my test environment, which is not what I expected. Any ideas? Jarl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.