Rails - Aug 2005 - validates_inclusion_of doesn't allow any input at all?

Here''s another interesting problem. (I''m starting to think
some
library somewhere on my system is a little brain-damaged at this
point.) I''ve put validates_inclusion_of in my model:

validates_inclusion_of :level, :in => 1..999
validates_inclusion_of :type, :in => %w( weapon armor )

and then attempted to create a new record. But when I go to create, it
refuses to do so because the type is not in the list, whether I pick
"weapon", "armor" or "tasty pudding".

Of course, commenting the line out "corrects" the problem, but
that''s
hardly a good solution to this problem.

What could be going on here? Like my previous problem it just seems
like something low-level is horribly broken, but I can''t imagine what.

Patrick McCafferty wrote:
> validates_inclusion_of :type, :in => %w( weapon armor )
I think your problems are probably due to type being AR''s STI column. 
You might try using column name ''kind'' instead.

Thanks, you''re right. I noticed it had a lot of errors when I ran the
test beyond just "Failed" so I changed the column name and it works.

Other strangeness (to me!) to follow...

Thanks for the help.

On 8/21/05, Nicholas Seckar
<nseckar-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Patrick McCafferty wrote:
> > validates_inclusion_of :type, :in => %w( weapon armor )
> 
> I think your problems are probably due to type being AR''s STI
column.
> You might try using column name ''kind'' instead.
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