The odd thing is that the users were created through the website two
months apart!

On Feb 28, 10:41 pm, Maurício Linhares <[email protected]>
wrote:
> No, it doesn't mean that the combination is unique, it means that
> :login and :email are going to be unique.
>
> There are two possible reasons, the user was added manually at the
> database (which is bad, as the database should have a unique index at
> both columns) or you got into a racing condition, where the two
> selects hit the database at the same time and thus both returned
> false.
>
> Best thing to do is to improve you database schema by creating some
> unique indexes that reflect your validations.
>
> -
> Maurício Linhareshttp://alinhavado.wordpress.com/(pt-br) 
> |http://blog.codevader.com/(en)
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:49 PM, phil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have the following in my user model:
>
> >  validates_uniqueness_of   :login, :email, :case_sensitive => false
>
> > yet somehow I ended up with two users with the same email. Does this
> > line mean that the COMBINATION is unique (I didn't think it did).
>
> > Should I have this instead:
>
> >  validates_uniqueness_of   :login, :case_sensitive => false
> >  validates_uniqueness_of   :email, :case_sensitive => false
>
> > Any ideas?
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