similar to: update_attribute and validations

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 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

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 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

Hi everyone, i have 20 fields in users table. in my admin profile module the admin can modify his infomation. but only 12 fields he can able to modify. so in my controller if params[ :profileinfo ][:first_name] @profileinfo.update_attribute(:first_name,params[ :profileinfo ][:first_name]) end the above simply saves what i enter into the field.why it doesnot consider the modelvalidation.

Either I''m not understanding how things are used, or this might be a bug in ActiveRecord. I''m using version 1.13.2. In my version of activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb (the svn trunk version is browsable at http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb ), I have: def update_attribute_with_validation_skipping(name,

i can not get update to work via controller/server. it works via console ??? this is what i get when i run it Club Load (0.005893) SELECT * FROM clubs WHERE (clubs."id" = 3) SQL (0.000570) BEGIN SQL (0.000454) COMMIT club.update_attributes(:state => "CA") or Club.update(3, :state => "CA") what am i overlooking?

I have the following validation on and ''Order'' model: validates_presence_of :order_lines, :message => ''missing one or more products.'', :on => :save Ok, great. An order has to have products. Ok. Problem is, there are some old orders that don''t have lines (don''t ask) and in the admin tool we need to be able to work on these orders.

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

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 have a Person model. Person has_many lab_urls. The LabUrl model has a title and a url, which are both required. Now, I want to update a LabUrl object and stick some invalid data in there. And I want the person that has that invalid LabUrl to now be invalid, too. That doesn''t seem like too much to ask for. How can I do that? Right now, this is happening: >> me = Person.find(1)

Hi begin ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do pb_status_history = ProblemStatusHistory.new pb_status_history.problem_id = @problem.id pb_status_history.problem_status_id = @problem.problem_status_id pb_status_history.save! ret_val=@problem.update_attribute("problem_status_id",''ab'') if ret_val==false

If I wanted to update an attribute with calling any validation or any of the before_save and after_save hooks, how would I go about doing this? Supposed the update_attribute method calls the before and after save methods. Thanks for your help. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Is there an addition to the Rails Recipe or the method in AWDWR to allow a user to change his/ her password? I have put something together that does all the work again - mostly because I''m not sure how to leverage on methods like ''password='' that are defined in the model. Has anyone got a ready sample that I could learn from? Right now, I''m basically

Hi all, I am a RoR newbie and have the following scenario set up: There are 2 ActiveRecords involved, the first one being "User", the second one being "Visibility". The corresponding users table holds address informations regarding a User. The visibilities table holds visibility settings for the individual columns of the users table (i.e. firstname, lastname, country

My server is running Rails 2.3.4...am I not doing this correctly or is something borked? >> c=Contact.last => #<Contact id: 24, name: "Larry", email: "larry-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org", phone: 2147483647, account_id: 8, created_at: "2009-11-27 18:16:25", updated_at: "2009-11-27 18:40:08", hide_name: false, hide_phone: false,

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])

Hmm. When using update_attribute from within a worker method, it seems that Backgroundrb inserts null values into all attributes that are not explicitly set. Is this possible/true?

Hi, I''m having some problems using ActiveRecord to update records in a sqlite database. This isn''t exactly as rails question, since I''m doing this initial import outside of rails, but I''m hoping someone hear might have an idea as to what my problem is. The basic problem is with the following code (which is run in a big loop) m = Movie.find_by_title_and_year

Hi, I was reading the messages at <http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2005-December/006969.html> http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2005-December/006969.html, Subject: [Rails] update_attribute send updates every field, why? Well, I am having the same problem, and I do have a binary column where I am storing files. Also, I am calling a web service so I can send the