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Hi all, I am a newbie to Rails. Please enlighten me on how to do this appropriately, the Rails and the Ruby way: Suppose I have a Recipe model. Let''s simplify things and pretend that it has only 2 attributes, a :name and the other is a ''category_id''. In the recipes table, category_id is a foreign key to field id of table categories. We also assume that I have generate

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What''s the better thing to do in a before_save if you don''t want the save to continue? raise an exception, or do an errors.add or both? Thanks, Chris Nolan.ca http://kweschun.com/ - Do you have a Kweschun?