Rails - Nov 2005 - Some of my code Broke after Upgrading from 0.13 to 0.14.3

Some code has stopped working in my model as a result of upgrading to  
rails rc4.

Two things stopped functioning properly in my model after my web- 
hosts upgraded their rails environment:

1. There is a small percentage of phone numbers that are making it  
past my before filter.  They are coming through with dashes. i.e.  
''123-456-7890''  but when I attempt to recreate this the phone
number
is normalized fine.  I''m unsure why 13 or 14 out of 116 new records  
would pass by the fillter some how?

2. Prior to the upgrade I had redefined read attribute to format all  
of the attributes to uppercase (thanks to help from people on this  
list).  But now this code is no longer working :(  Any ideas?

Here is a condensed version of my model:

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class Member < ActiveRecord::Base

before_validation :normalize_phone_number

# Fixes the formatting of the phone numer and fax number.
    def normalize_phone_number
      self.phone_number.gsub!(/[^\d]/, '''') unless
self.phone_number.nil?
      self.fax_number.gsub!(/[^\d]/, '''') unless
self.fax_number.nil?
    end


# Text transforms all strings to uppercase prior to display.
    def read_attribute(attr_name)
      a = super(attr_name)
      if a.respond_to? ''upcase'' then a.upcase else a end
    end

end

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On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Jim Jeffers wrote:
> Some code has stopped working in my model as a result of upgrading  
> to rails rc4.
>
> Two things stopped functioning properly in my model after my web- 
> hosts upgraded their rails environment:
>
> 1. There is a small percentage of phone numbers that are making it  
> past my before filter.  They are coming through with dashes. i.e.  
> ''123-456-7890''  but when I attempt to recreate this the
phone
> number is normalized fine.  I''m unsure why 13 or 14 out of 116 new
> records would pass by the fillter some how?
>
> 2. Prior to the upgrade I had redefined read attribute to format  
> all of the attributes to uppercase (thanks to help from people on  
> this list).  But now this code is no longer working :(  Any ideas?
>
> Here is a condensed version of my model:
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> class Member < ActiveRecord::Base
>
> before_validation :normalize_phone_number
>
> # Fixes the formatting of the phone numer and fax number.
>    def normalize_phone_number
>      self.phone_number.gsub!(/[^\d]/, '''') unless  
> self.phone_number.nil?
>      self.fax_number.gsub!(/[^\d]/, '''') unless
self.fax_number.nil?
>    end
>
>
> # Text transforms all strings to uppercase prior to display.
>    def read_attribute(attr_name)
>      a = super(attr_name)
>      if a.respond_to? ''upcase'' then a.upcase else a end
>    end
> end
Does your code work when you remove the read_attribute override?

Try setting ActiveRecord::Base.generate_read_methods = false in  
environment.rb

jeremy
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