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Hello all, Is there a method for updating all the attributes from a hash without saving to the database? (the counterpart of update_attributes but without saving). What I want to do is: person = Person.find(params[:id]) person.update_without_saving(params[:person]) #update the in-memory object. # Process person object ....... person.save I know that when you are creating a new object, you can

Getting this error when hitting update. NoMethodError in Article#update You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base. The error occured while evaluating nil.update_attributes Source code. def create @article = Article.new(params[:article]) @article.user = @session[''user''] if @article.save

...ll, I''ve been having a slight problem updating attributes for a row that matches something other than it''s ID...For ex: My table that has 3 rows..ColumnID, ColumnTitle, and ColumnDescription. I want to update a row in that table WHERE CoumnTitle = @myvar....But whenever i run update_attrbutes[:mytable] it''s looking for an id for the record when i need to to look for the title...is there a way to override that? Any help is much appreciated! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.