Hi Everyone, I''ve encountered an interesting problem today; I''m setting up an application with locations, where each location has_many :events. The event model has a datetime field, called "service_at." I''m working with Timezones, so I''ve rewritten my accessor methods for service_at to automatically convert the service_at from UTC to Local or the reverse. The timezone data is stored on the location in this example. The problem I''m encountering is that I can''t reference the parent during a build() operation. So the following code: location = Location.find(1) event = location.events.build(params[:event]) Creates a situation where the custom service_at= method can''t access the location data. def service_at=(time) logger.info("converting #{time} to UTC") logger.info(self.to_yaml) time = location.tz.local_to_utc(time) unless location.nil? logger.info("#{time} to be saved.") write_attribute(:service_at, time) end Pardon my debugging code, but the output in the console looks like this (assuming that the service_at I''m passing is the datetime December 14, 2006, 10:00am) converting Thu Dec 14 10:00:00 UTC 2006 to UTC --- !ruby/object:Event attributes: project_id: 1 location_id: service_at: workers_needed: 1 total_hours: 8 new_record: true Thu Dec 14 10:00:00 UTC 2006 to be saved. As you''ll notice, the event instance doesn''t have a record of the location_id or Location object at all. I can''t simply use a before_save callback, because creating an event using Event.new and passing in location_id as a parameter will cause the above code to function the way I expect. So, any suggestions on why the events.build() method isn''t making the location object available to it''s newly created association? -Jared --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---