I should mention that the Hash does contain the Objective's data. the reason it is important that Objective is returned instead of Hash is because I want to be able to call methods on it.
On Oct 24, 8:31 am, drewB <[email protected]> wrote: > I am running into a very odd problem. I have an ActiveRecord called > Objective with a public create method. When this method is called in > a controller the return value is a Hash instead of Objective. When I > test the method in Rspec for the model it returns as Objective. > > Does anyone have an idea about why the return type would be different > and if so how to fix it so it always returns Objective? > > Code: > > class Objective < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :user > has_many :next_actions, :order => 'id DESC', :conditions => > {:completed => false} > has_many :action_items, :order => 'position' > has_many :progress_updates > > serialize :freq_value > > validates_presence_of :name, :due_date, :completion, :pr_u_frequency_id > validates_numericality_of :completion, :only_integer => > true, :greater_than_or_equal_to => 0, :less_than_or_equal_to => 100 > > def self.create(attributes, user_id) > #create new record with user_id correctly set > attributes.delete :freq_options #deletes this unused key > obj = self.new(attributes) > obj.user_id = user_id > obj.save ? obj : nil > > end > > end > > class ObjectivesController < ApplicationController > before_filter :require_user > > layout false > > def create > objective = Objective.create(params[:objective], current_user.id) > Rails.logger.info("****objective.class = #{objective.class}****") > end > end --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
