That was it. It took me a while to confirm because I (stupidly) wrote a migration to replace "change" (notice the missing "d") with "lastchanged". The good part is that it forced me to install ruby- debug to take a closer look, and I was able to see the problem for myself. Thanks for the help!
On May 10, 1:10 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 10, 4:56 am, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I generated scaffolding for User with the following schema: > > > create_table "users", :force => true do |t| > > t.string "name" > > t.string "company" > > t.string "lastcompany" > > t.datetime "changed" > > your changed column is squashing an activerecord method called > changed, rails calls the changed method expecting to get it's changed > method, but gets the accessor for your column instead. > > Fred > > > > > t.datetime "created_at" > > t.datetime "updated_at" > > end > > > When I run the automatically generated functional tests against the > > Users controller, I get one failure: > > > test_should_update_user(UsersControllerTest): > > NoMethodError: undefined method `|’ for Wed Apr 29 23:49:18 UTC > > 2009:Time > > > Oddly, if I just run this one test it passes: > > > >ruby functional\users_controller_test.rb -n test_should_update_user > > Loaded suite functional/users_controller_test > > Started > > . > > Finished in 0.594 seconds. > > > 1 tests, 1 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors > > > The failure seems to be on this line of my controller: > > > if @user.update_attributes(params[:user]) > > > Because if I change it to "if true" my test passes. > > > The only thing unique about this particular class is that it has an > > additional datetime member. I'm not having luck with google searches > > because of that pipe character. Hopefully I'm running into a fairly > > common failure here?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
