similar to: Problem with validates_uniqueness_of

I have a problem with the usage of validates_uniqueness_of that I hope someone can help throw a light on. With a new record, this validation works fine. But my problem came when I am updating a record. I was not able do it because it tells me that field value already exists. I was actually updating the value of other fields. According to the documentation which says "When the record is

I have the following ActiveRecord objects: class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :ratings, :dependent => true . . . end class Rating < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness_of :created_by, :scope => :recipe_id belongs_to :recipe, :counter_cache => true . . . end The created_by field on Rating is implemented as a "magic" field similar to this:

Hi folks, I have a question regarding validates_uniqueness_of, and similar before-filter-like events attempting to guarantee some DB state prior to modification. >From my reading of ActiveRecord, validate_uniqueness_of appears to cause a SELECT on the underlying table attempting to ensure that a record with ID(s) specified in the validates_uniqueness_of statement is not already present, prior

I''ve got something like this: class Position < ActiveRecord::Base end class CartItem < Position validates_uniqueness_of :product_id end When I try to save CartItem I get this error: ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) from /home/joaz/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/validations.rb:758:in `exists?'' from

Hello, I''m wanting to use Mocha and Stubba for my tests in place of the default Rails testing with fixtures. I have the following class: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base validates_uniqueness_of :email end and am wondering how I can test to ensure that the validates_uniqueness_of validation is running. Any ideas? -Jonathan

Hello all, I have a class Ticket < ActiveRecord::Base which has a property called :number and a property called :samples_date. a ticket number has to be unique over the same year. the year is given by the property called :samples_date I''m trying to validate the uniqueness of :number based on the year from the :samples_date property. i would like to specify the condition somehow in

I was wondering if anybody knows an easy way to pass a method name as the scope option to a validates_uniqueness_of validation on a AR model? For example, I have nested models a bit like: class Survey has_many :areas end class Area belongs_to :survey has_many :questions, :order => ''position'' validates_uniqueness_of :position, :scope => : survey_id end class

I tried to check validates_uniqueness_of for a MySql enum type column with a scope given, like this: validates_uniqueness_of :phone_type, :scope => :user_id And It didn''t work. When I check the SQL statement for doing this validation, it is like this: SELECT `phone_numbers`.id FROM `phone_numbers` WHERE (`phone_numbers`.`phone_type` = BINARY '''' AND

Hi to everybody, well i recently became a RoR developer, web i was following the video class from Lynda, and i introduce more code in my aplicacion, my application is a music store web site, ok so i add the funcionality of add clients, for that i need from my client, his user and password, so it will be 1 user per client, for that reason i use at my model validates_uniqueness_of :user

Has anybody noticed validates_uniqueness_of missing in rails 3.0 rc2? I''m not sure if this is a bug or I''m just doing something wrong. Here''s what I''m doing. Class 1: class Title < ActiveRecord::Base validates_length_of :language, :is => 3 validates_uniqueness_of :language, :scope => :book_id validate :language,

Hello I''ve been using Acts_as_Parnoid for a while and it has been working well but I am now having a slight issue with it. I have a company table were I would like to use validates_uniqueness_of :company_name. This validation works if a company exists in the database and has not been deleted. However, I also would like the validates_uniqueness_of to work if a company has

Hey everyone, I have an application running on dreamhost with fast cgi (FCGI). I have a model, "Member", that has the following validation: validates_uniqueness_of :email, :if => Proc.new{|member| !member.email.blank?} The :if clause is really not needed because an email address is required and in fact the model also has: validates_presence_of :email

Is it possible to do a validates_uniqueness_of :name, :zip but only in that context? I''d like to be able to have that zip used again, but not in conjunction with a name already with that zip. Does that make sense? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi All, I am trying write a validation rule where I need to ensure that when a certain value is updated or created in a particular columns, a number of other columns columns are unique and that another column does not contain a certain value. I have been able to use the validates_uniqueness_of :column_a (to be updated or inserted) with , :scope => [ :column_b , :column_c , :column_d ]

it''s a blog... class Entry < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :categories end similarly: class Category < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :entries end I wish to make sure that the owner doesn''t add the same category to a given entry more than once... I''m thinking that validates_uniqueness_of should be usable here. But can''t

I need to modify the validates_uniqueness_of function so that it will check that the string is unique but only in its own category. For example right now I have validates_uniqueness_of :title so let''s say I have the :title "Title 1" already in the database with the :category of "1" then if i wanted to enter the :title "Title 1" in the database again BUT

ActiveRecord bug ? validates_uniqueness_of doesn''t work with serialize I''m trying to serialize, unserialize an Array-type property of a Object instance, and validate that the Array or serialized version is unique within the the scope of another property using :scope does anyone know a work around ? Anthony Green -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Rails 3.2.8 Very strange , it works in dv mode console , but not in a unit test class User < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :subdomain validates_uniqueness_of :email, :scope => :subdomain_id class UserTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase def initialize_user @booboo = FactoryGirl.create(:subdomain, name: "booboo") @coocoo = FactoryGirl.create(:subdomain, name:

Hello, I am new to Ruby on rails and this is therefore probably trivial. Lets say I have 3 tables - users[id,name, age, ...], interests[id,name,description, ...], and finally a table user_interests[id,user_id,interest_id] to link a user to a set of interests. Now there is no problem to put validates_uniqueness_of :name in the user-model to ensure that I only have one Lenny, but how do I

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