On Wed, March 6, 2013 04:54, Frederick Cheung wrote: > > As an aside recent versions of rails raise > ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique in > such cases, although this is a subclass of > ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid > so shouldn't change behaviour as far as you're concern. You're also > changing the signature of save although I don't think that is related > to the problem at hand. >
On: Tue Mar 5, 2013 1:48 pm ((PST)), "Les Nightingill" [email protected] lesnightingill wrote: > > perhaps the exception being raised is not > ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid. > > suggest trying rescue with no exception specified to see if there is a > different exception being raised. > > Les Bingo! Rails-3.2.12 implements code similar to that I was providing in hll_ar_exception( this_exception ) ) and actually returns the exact message from PG that I was checking for therein. def save( * ) begin puts( "I go" ) super puts( "I return" ) rescue => e puts( e.inspect ) false end end Using the default profile... .................I go #<ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique: PG::Error: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "idxu_currencies_currency_code" DETAIL: Key (currency_code)=(JPY) already exists. : INSERT INTO "currencies" ("changed_at", "changed_by", "created_at", "created_by", "currency_code", "currency_name", "discount_factor", "effective_from", "fx_accounting_factor", "fx_accounting_margin", "is_payable", "is_receivable", "premium_factor", "superseded_after") VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11, $12, $13, $14) RETURNING "id"> ..F- (::) failed steps (::) Mystery solved. Thanks. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:[email protected] Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
