On Nov 27, 7:25 pm, Rofb <[email protected]> wrote: > My server is running Rails 2.3.4...am I not doing this correctly or is > something borked? > > >> c=Contact.last > > => #<Contact id: 24, name: "Larry", email: "[email protected]", phone: > 2147483647, account_id: 8, created_at: "2009-11-27 18:16:25", > updated_at: "2009-11-27 18:40:08", hide_name: false, hide_phone: > false, hide_email: false>>> c.update_attribute('phone',8888888888) > => true > >> c > > => #<Contact id: 24, name: "Larry", email: "[email protected]", phone: , > 8888888888, account_id: 8, created_at: "2009-11-27 18:16:25", > updated_at: "2009-11-27 19:15:43", hide_name: false, hide_phone: > false, hide_email: false>>> Contact.last > > => #<Contact id: 24, name: "Larry", email: "[email protected]", phone: > 2147483647, account_id: 8, created_at: "2009-11-27 18:16:25", > updated_at: "2009-11-27 19:15:43", hide_name: false, hide_phone: > false, hide_email: false> > Looks like the phone number is getting set to 2^31-1, which might happen if the data type of the column isn't big enough to hold the value 8888888888 (personally I keep things like phone numbers as strings - although it's called a 'phone number' it's not really a number in that things like leading zeroes, punctuation (eg # to select someone's extension) are often significant).
Fred > I've been tearing my hair out over this..please help. -- 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.
