Rails - Jul 2006 - reintializing a model object to invoke model callbacks

Any thoughts on this one guys?  How do I reinitialize an already
initialized model object in my controller in one shot rather than
manually initializing each attribute?  In other words, I do a find like
so:

user = User.find(id)
# Now I want to reinitialize the user object by using the
params["user"]
but I''d like to intialize it in a way that calls my model''s
equality
operator to do some sepecial initializations defined as so:

# In my model
def user=(user)
...
end

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I need to somehow invoke the after_* and before_* callbacks and these
apparently don''t get invoked if I do an update like so:
user.update(....).  It seems like I must do a user.save! to invoke them.

Thanks,

Saureen.


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