Please provide more information about (or just check) your migration and model and its associations.
In the meantime, ActiveRecord skips the check on the record/row (not the column) on Update. Here's the relevant text: "When the record is created, a check is performed to make sure that no record exists in the database with the given value for the specified attribute (that maps to a column). When the record is updated, the same check is made but disregarding the record itself. " Have you verified your data, that there is only one record in the table with that value? D. On Jul 3, 11:15 pm, Me <[email protected]> wrote: > According to the docs when you validate on uniqueness it is supposed > to skip the check on the column. I am getting failed validation on > updates for some reason. Rails 2.3.5 -- 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.

