Rails - Jan 2006 - validating without saving

i am trying to validate without saving use the valid? method on my
object.  however i keep getting the following error (that i reproduced
in console)  "NoMethodError for field"

Any ideas ?

thanks
adam

Loading development environment.
>> p = Post.new
=> #<Post:0x407b6050 @attributes={"created_on"=>nil,
"subcat"=>1,
"cat"=>nil, "body"=>"",
"zipcode"=>0, "subject"=>"",
"contactok"=>"0",
"views"=>0, "user_id"=>0, "image"=>nil,
"email"=>nil},
@new_record=true>
>> p.valid?
NoMethodError: undefined method `field'' for #<Post:0x407b6050>
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1501:in
`method_missing''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:294:in
`send''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:294:in
`validates_each''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:293:in
`each''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:293:in
`validates_each''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:290:in
`call''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:769:in
`run_validations''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:763:in
`each''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:763:in
`run_validations''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:727:in
`valid_without_callbacks''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:306:in
`valid?''
        from (irb):2
>>

disregard, i left :field in my model by accident and it was
complaingin on that.....

sorry


On 1/12/06, Adam Denenberg <straightflush@gmail.com>
wrote:
> i am trying to validate without saving use the valid? method on my
> object.  however i keep getting the following error (that i reproduced
> in console)  "NoMethodError for field"
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> thanks
> adam
>
> Loading development environment.
> >> p = Post.new
> => #<Post:0x407b6050 @attributes={"created_on"=>nil,
"subcat"=>1,
> "cat"=>nil, "body"=>"",
"zipcode"=>0, "subject"=>"",
"contactok"=>"0",
> "views"=>0, "user_id"=>0,
"image"=>nil, "email"=>nil},
> @new_record=true>
> >> p.valid?
> NoMethodError: undefined method `field'' for
#<Post:0x407b6050>
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1501:in
> `method_missing''
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:294:in
> `send''
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:294:in
> `validates_each''
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:293:in
> `each''
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:293:in
> `validates_each''
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:290:in
> `call''
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:769:in
> `run_validations''
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:763:in
> `each''
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:763:in
> `run_validations''
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:727:in
> `valid_without_callbacks''
>         from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:306:in
> `valid?''
>         from (irb):2
> >>
>