Rails - Feb 2006 - Updating only some of the fields of a table.

It''s not clear to me how to save data to only some of the fields of a 
table. To update individual fields I can do something like this:

@foo = Foo.new
@foo.bar = "hello!"
@foo.anotherbar = "hello again"
@report.save

However what if I only want to save the field "anotherbar" and
don''t
want the final insert or save query to contain the field "bar" at all?
If I do somethig like this...

@foo = Foo.new
@foo.anotherbar = "hello again"
@report.save

...as expected, rails still tries to create an INSERT query with the 
"bar" record, giving it a NULL value. Any idea how I could ommit the 
"other" field completely?

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Never mind. I was doing something completely wrong. It seems to work 
fine as is.

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