Setting a boolean to false in a before_create callback

Gabriel Saravia
Wed, 13 May 2009 01:14:38 -0000

Has anyone ever had trouble doing this?  Whenever I try to do so, it
doesn''t seem to work:

in my model:
[code]
  before_create :set_defaults

  def set_defaults
    self.submitted = false
  end
[/code]

in my rspec test:
[code]
  it "Should set ''submitted'' to false before a
create" do
    @assignment = Assignment.new(:submitted => true)
    @assignment.save
    @assignment.submitted.should be_false
  end
[/code]

and the result:
[code]
Assignment Should set ''submitted'' to false before a
create'' FAILED
expected false, got true