similar to: update and update_attribute woes

Just in case it saves someone else the several hours of insanity I just went through, update_attributes will not save unless the model validations are satisfied, but update_attribute (the singular form) will save the attribute to the database even if the model validations would fail! This appears to be a feature, not a bug (http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html) although

Does anyone know of a way to update individual attributes with validation? update_attribute disables the validation checks in the record model, so I''m wondering if there''s a workaround for this. In my application, I want to allow the user to update some or all the attributes without having to enter :password and :password_confirmation, both of which are subject to

I have two models Club and users. users are regular authenticated users and some of them might create a club. A club can also have members (essentially users) and there are attributes and models that apply to member but not to users. Here is what I have right now. Club => belongs_to :user User => has_many clubs (since a user can host multiple clubs). Now how do I fit this member model

My problem is not with the Icecast server, but with my user's ability to get a decent client to play the streams. I have 3 Icecast streams created using Ices, and the mountpoints have the mp3 extension. My users and I have observed: 1) If Quick Time is brought up by the browser, it skips and chokes on the stream. 2) If Windows Media is brought up by the browser, it will do either of two

I''ve read through my RoR books and I can''t seem to find the solution. This is a pretty basic, easy, and practical application for RoR. If you guys know of any resources on the net to answer these questions let me know. Question 1: Basically, I have a many-to-many relationship that I want to add records to. I use something like this to add records in the A_B table:

>This certainly sounds like the 'war for control' that often happens when you >try to install Winamp & RealPlayer on the same box. It's been discussed at >great length in the www.winamp.com support forum. > >You are sticking the URL into a .ram file in order to start RealPlayer, >right? No. I stick the URL, http://www.RainbowRadio.com/club.mp3 into RealPlayer,

Hi List, I have a table that contains several fields that must be initialized when first created, but may not be altered afterwards (when updating the other fields) because they can be changed by external processes. I noticed that the ActiveRecord update commands (even update_attribute) only seem to work by loading the complete record, changing fields that need to be changed and doing a full

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jack Moffitt wrote: > The way to prevetn this download, or rather to work around it, is to use > a small intermediate playlist file. In order to get maximum client > support, m3u files are best. Just make an m3u file called stream.m3u > and in it put: > > http://www.RainbowRadio.com:8000/club.mp3 > > Then point your users to that file. Which will

Hi, I am trying to get into this REST thing, I have a nested resource whith the following route: ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| map.resources :members map.resources :clubs do |club| club.resources :members end map.connect '':controller/:action/:id'' map.connect '':controller/:action/:id.:format'' end Everything worked ok for this

I know the debate of whether this should validate has been rehashed many times. My question is, what are the consequences of overriding this method to force validation? Will this break fundamental things? Will it break plugins? Is there a reason not to have a strict validation option? In my code I will never use this as I consider it a terribly broken method, but some gems use it and in one case

I have a user table, and it has forty columns, including name, gender, address, email, phone... So my @user object will have forty attributes. I divide these attributes into 4 groups... namely ''general info'', ''personal info'', ''contact info''... and I make separate forms to edit these 4 different group attributes. The problem is when I update

Hello again... so I narrowed my problem down. For some reason, while using login_generator, any User object I pull from the DB can be updated one attribute at a time using update_attribute, but when I try and do update_attributes it fails every time. Is this a limitation with login_generator that I don''t know about, or is there a way around this? I also tried the .update method and

If I am changing a boolean value, no matter what approach I take, I get the same results: lets say table "users" has an "enabled" field that is boolean: user = User.find(1) user.enabled.toggle NoMethodError: undefined method `toggle'' for false:FalseClass user = User.find(1) toggle(user.enabled) NoMethodError: undefined method `toggle'' for

I notice that ActiveRecord::Base.update_attributes() calls save(). What if I want to get an exception if the save fails? Is there a way to get the update_attributes() function plus the save! function? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Besides the hashed password, which is saved to db, I have two password-attributes in my User model: attr_accessor :password, :password_confirmation I have validations on these attributes, and I need them to work both on create and update, since I have pages for changing and resetting the password. Now when I want to update just the user''s login name, I guess I have the next

I have a photographers app that requires giving access to galleries for users. in one part, I want to be able to define gallery access for a user seperate from updating any of the user info. I have this function: def edit_access @user = User.find(params[:id]) @user.galleries = Gallery.find(params[:gallery_ids]) if params[:gallery_ids] if @user.update_attributes(params[:user])

I am trying to wrap the updating of two models in a transaction and when the transaction fails it is not rolling back. My method is : def update_attributes(user,params) @user = user @company = user.company begin User.transaction do @user.update_attributes!(params[:user]) @company.update_attributes!(params[:company]) end true rescue false

Hi! I have updated my app to rails 2.3. I have form that has few nested models and I am happy that I can just write accepts_nested_attributes_for :tasks, :allow_destroy => true, but update_attributes! does not update my nested model. I have tried update_attributes, and it works. Any ideas? Few lines from log: update_attributes: SQL (0.1ms) BEGIN Education Update (0.3ms) UPDATE

> The URL looks like this: http://www.RainbowRadio.com:8000/club.mp3 > > My goal is to instruct users as how Winamp may be brought up to play > the stream automatically. I am migrating from Real Audio to > Icecast, but I cannot complete the migration with users having so much > trouble with the streams. So what did you expect to happen just having people click on an MP3?

For some strange reason I can''t get update_attributes to work. Any reason why that might be? here is my code: controller: def update @user = User.find(params[:id]) respond_to do |format| if @user.update_attributes(params[:user]) flash[:notice] = ''Your Information was successfully updated.'' format.html { redirect_to(user_url(@user))