Rails - Mar 2006 - Problems with before_validation

Hi all

My visitors can create party organisator profiles, and I want assign 
them as the creators (the field creator_id in the organisators table 
references a member in the members table).
To do that I tried it with before_validation:

  def before_validation
    creator = Member.find 1
  end

Sadly, this does not work. The validation

  validates_presence_of :creator_id

Still tells me, that creator needs a value.
What''s wrong there? Somehow the attribute gets not filled with a 
value... I tried ith with self.creator = Member.find 1, and this would 
work, but surely is not clean, because creator is no static variable...

Thanks for help.
Josh

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Joshua Muheim wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> My visitors can create party organisator profiles, and I want assign 
> them as the creators (the field creator_id in the organisators table 
> references a member in the members table).
> To do that I tried it with before_validation:
> 
>   def before_validation
>     creator = Member.find 1
>   end
> 
> Sadly, this does not work. The validation
> 
>   validates_presence_of :creator_id
> 
> Still tells me, that creator needs a value.
> What''s wrong there? Somehow the attribute gets not filled with a 
> value... I tried ith with self.creator = Member.find 1, and this would 
> work, but surely is not clean, because creator is no static variable...
> 
> Thanks for help.
> Josh
hi,

maybe "@creator"? BTW could you point me to some info about using
self,
I thought you could use it like "this" in java, it''s simply
pointing to
the current object?

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