Yes, thank you so much, that's exactly it! A nil value for one of the attributes was triggering an error, because there's a validation for a maximum value. I gather a maximum value validation requires there to be a value to check and not nil. Changing that attribute to a string="" for all the entries solved the problem.
On Jan 25, 6:35 pm, Andrew Bloom <[email protected]> wrote: > Try this and see what is printed: > > if @event.save > puts "Event saved" > else > puts @event.errors.full_messages.inspect > end > > What you're doing sounds right, most likely though you have a > validation that is keeping the model from saving. > > On Jan 25, 4:44 pm, Sharon Machlis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Once a month or so, I'd like to pull data from an RSS feed and add it > > into my database. I've written a rake task that properly reads the > > feed, parses it and assigns the correct information to new instances > > of my @event model - when I run the rake task and have it print out > > the various @event attributes, they're correct. However, when I > > include the command @event.save nothing happens. > > > In fact, when I added this code > > > if @event.save > > puts "Event saved" > > else > > puts "Event not saved, bummer" > > > I got "Event not saved, bummer" > > > Is it possible to use a rake task to add entries to my application's > > database? If so, any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong? > > I'm testing this in my development environment, and I start my task > > definition using > > > task (:parse_info => :environment) do > > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
