I have a basic login system implemented. I''ve recently added a timestamp field "last_activity_time". During the login process, if I successfully get back a user object, I do this: user.update_attribute(:last_activity_time, Time.now()) It appears to be successful given the breadcrumbs I''ve strewn around it, but nothing gets written out to my table. In development.log I see this: Updating record {:last_activity_time=>Mon Jun 26 11:19:00 EDT 2006} Upated record (Where Updating/Upated.. are my breadcrumbs). I''m wondering, are the underscores screwing it up? It''s not throwing any errors, so where exactly does it think that it''s writing out the data? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.