On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Daisy Di <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear All > i follow the instruction of Ruby on rails 3 tutorial, now i want to > update the email of the User, > user =User.find(1) > user.update_attributes(:email=>"[email protected]") > > but the save failed, error message is "password can not be blank", > so i try this one > user.update_attributes(:email=>"[email protected]", :password =>"12345678") > then it success,but i dont want to update the password, i try a lots > times that is i want to change the value of other attributes, i must > update the password, if not ,the updating will fail. > > how can i update without updating the password ? > Check the User model (../app/models/user.rb) and see if there is a validation on password, present, could be e.g. validates :password, :presence => true If you not requre a password to be present, you could deactive that line. Or, alternatively, you could make sure a password is filled in for the user. You can check these valdiation errors e.g. with this code user.valid? # false if some validation failed user.errors.messages # all the validations that failed HTH, Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
