hello list, ive got a simple problem of copying a row to another table the to tables have enough identical columns, so i used the attributes hash of my object to get less work with it the my piece of code for that def activate @priv_property = PrivProperty.find(params[:id]) cols = {} @priv_property.attributes.each do |k, v| tmp = {k.intern => v} cols.merge(tmp) tmp.clear end cols[:adat] = Time.now cols[:edat] = Time.now cols[:sendetermin] = Time.now cols[:mkunr] = cols[:maknr] cols[:maknr] = 111 cols[:refnr] = cols[:reccou] cols[:rc] = cols[:refnr] cols.delete(:reccou) cols[:reccou] = nil ["objstatpriv", "objreccou", "objaktiv", "objdeaktiv", "objlztage", "vertrag", "objretage", "objbrutto", "objmwst", "zahlart", "dtadat", "woher", "refnr"].each do |c| cols.delete(c) end property = Property.new property.save! ActiveRecord::Base.whiny_protected_attributes = false property.update_attributes(cols) ActiveRecord::Base.whiny_protected_attributes = true render :nothing => true end fetching and so on is ok but the attributes hash has string indexes and updates_attributes calls symbols so i decided to solve this by convert the string index to symbol into a new hash named cols but that doesnt work and my question is why it doesnt work? have anybody a good solution or tipp for my problem? thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---