Rails - Jan 2009 - Belonging models not saving individually

Hi, I have some Page model that has_many Photos, I am using Paperclip
for doing the file processing for the photos and I am following the Ryan
Bates (Advanced Rails Recipes) recipe for handling multiple belonging
models and parent model in a single form (wich i implemented into a gem)
so I can dynamically add and remove photos.


Ok, the problem is when creating a Page and validation fails: the user
has to upload all the files again. I thought of saving the photos
without validation when creating a Page so Paperclip does it''s job, I
would have a bg task to delete orphan Photos:


class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
  accepts_multiple :photos, :dependent => :destroy #this method comes
from my
                                    #gem implementation of the Ryan B.
recipe

  validates_associated :photos
  validates_presence_of :title, :content

  after_validation_on_create :save_attachments

  def save_attachments
    unless self.errors.empty?
      self.photos.each{ |photo| photo.save( false ) }
    end
  end
end

The problem is that the Photos don''t get saved in the database although
they return false for #new_record? and Paperclip saves the files, if I
set a debugger here:

  def create
    @page = Page.new(params[:page])

    if @page.save
      ...
    else
      debugger
      render :action => "new"
    end
  end

and play with the irb:
>> @planta.fotos.first
=> #<Photo id: 1, page_id: nil...
>> @planta.fotos.first.new_record?
=> false
>> Photo.count
=> 0
>> Photo.find( 1 )
=> ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound Exception: Couldn''t find Photo with
ID=1
>> @planta.fotos.first.save( false )
=> true
>> Photo.count
=> 0

This is most annoying and strange, it should be saved!!!


In the log it appears as it has ben written to db:
Photo Create (0.8ms)   INSERT INTO "photos" ("updated_at"...

Is there any kind of transaction or caching involved? Can I override
this behavior?
 Please help!!
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Macario Ortega wrote:
> The problem is that the Photos don''t get saved in the database
although
> they return false for #new_record? and Paperclip saves the files, if I
> set a debugger here:
> 
>   def create
>     @page = Page.new(params[:page])
> 
>     if @page.save
>       ...
>     else
>       debugger
>       render :action => "new"
>     end
>   end
> 
> and play with the irb:
> 
>>> @planta.fotos.first
> => #<Photo id: 1, page_id: nil...
>>> @planta.fotos.first.new_record?
> => false
>>> Photo.count
> => 0
>>> Photo.find( 1 )
> => ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound Exception: Couldn''t find Photo
with ID=1
>>> @planta.fotos.first.save( false )
> => true
>>> Photo.count
> => 0
> 
> This is most annoying and strange, it should be saved!!!
> 
> 
> In the log it appears as it has ben written to db:
> Photo Create (0.8ms)   INSERT INTO "photos"
("updated_at"...
> 
> Is there any kind of transaction or caching involved? Can I override
> this behavior?
Rails automatically wraps saves in transactions, but does not
reset the ids of successful saves within a rolled-back save,
even though those saves will themselves be rolled-back.

You''ll have to do something like

@page.save_without_transactions

or save your photos outside the page save.

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