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...ors#invalid? doesn''t actually do validations. It just looks at the associated errors object (which is empty if validation hasn''t been performed) to see what errors are stored there. Check out the api docs on this stuff @ http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Errors.html#M000836 http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Validations.html And try firing up script/console, instantiating a Festival and setting values for the params you expect to get, then trying the validations out, if you haven''t already. I don''t really know what''s up with (...