I have a model Model1 with the before_destory() method defined as below. def before_destroy self.status = 'deleted' self.save! return false #don't want to delete the row. end
But in the database the change in the status column doesn't get changed to 'deleted' I then tried this def before_destory self.status = 'deleted' self.save! n = Model1.find self.id #Set the breakpoint here in NetBeans IDE. return false end I then checked the value of n.status and it was 'deleted', but in the database it was still 'active' (the other value). I also tried this Controller1 < ApplicationController def action1 m = Model1.find params[:id] m.destroy n = Model1.find m.id #Set the breakpoint here end end Even here the value of n.status was 'deleted', but in the database it was the previous value. (Showed this example just to show that even in controller I'm getting the same). After a bit of of looking through Rails API, I found out that model callbacks like before_destroy are transactional. so they get rolled back if any error raised. So I tried this. def before_destroy self.status = 'deleted' self.save! raise self.errors.inspect return false end The above code made sure that there are no errors attached, so self.save! should run fine (or at least it should raise error!). So I don't know now, why my changes are not being written to the database. Is it because I'm returning false from the before_destroy() method? If yes, then how can I save the changes made in before_destroy () callback and also the row doesn't get deleted? I'm using SQLite and I've also noticed that a 'development-journal' file get created, while I've paused the code somewhere in between the before_destroy() method. (That may be the transaction thing, I guess.) I'm using - Rails 2.2.2 SQLite 3.5.9 Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) x64 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
