Rails - Jun 2006 - user.save now workie, but user.update_attributes does

In my User model, I had this:

def update_last_login_time
	self.last_login = Time.now
	self.save
end

But last_login was not being set.
When I changed it to this it worked:

self.update_attribute( :last_login, Time.now )

Any ideas why?

~S

The call to ''save'' will return false if the save fails,
usually due to
validation problems.  Either check the return value of your
''save''
call, or change it to ''save!'' which will raise an exception if
the
save fails.

Cheers,

-David Felstead

On 6/26/06, Shea Martin <shea08@eastlink.ca>
wrote:
> In my User model, I had this:
>
> def update_last_login_time
>         self.last_login = Time.now
>         self.save
> end
>
> But last_login was not being set.
> When I changed it to this it worked:
>
> self.update_attribute( :last_login, Time.now )
>
> Any ideas why?
>
> ~S
>
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