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I am trying to use the new partial_updates feature in rails 2.1, http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/9157 but it is failing by trying to use all validations in the model instead of just the changed attributes. The model works as I can successfully .save(false) but if I try a regular .save I get an error saying that it could not save because of validations problems. I want to use this to get

I''m still relatively new to ROR, but I like what I see with the database-neutral approach of Schemas. In the spirit of keeping it simple and minimizing the number of files and location of information, does ActiveState currently allow me to go ahead and place other low level model information such as validation requirements and associations inside the schema rather than putting it in

...ActiveRecord::Base has_many :posts attribute :name, :string attribute :email, :string do |a| a.validate_format :with => /regex/ end end class Post < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :author # automatically adds author_id to the table attribute :title, :string do |a| a.validate_presence a.validate_length :in => 3..100 end attribute :summary, :text attribute :content, :text end --------------------- [from: http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/011325.html] Then Jon Smirl comes up with a list of what needs to be done to make migrations play along s...