On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Gabriel Saravia <[email protected]>wrote:
> So, I'm attempting to make sure that the associated user_id of an object > cannot be changed on update and I'm doing this with a before_update > callback and this method in the model: > > before_update :lock_user_id > > def lock_user_id > if self.user_id_changed? > self.user_id = self.user_id_was unless self.user_id_was == nil > end > true > end > > but this spec fails: > > it "user_id cannot be changed once QR has been created" do > @qr.update_attributes(:user_id => -1) > @qr.user_id.should == @user.id > end > > at first I thought it was that update_attributes did not do a complete > save (not that i've ever enabled partial saves), but this alternate spec > also fails: > > it "user_id cannot be changed once QR has been created" do > @qr.user_id = 99 > @qr.save > @qr.user_id.should == @user.id > end > > even stranger is that a method in another model which does the same > thing for another attribute passes its test. > > Anybody have any idea what i'm doing wrong/alternate suggestions? > > Thanks. Only thing I could think of is validations for QR did not pass, which means that the before_update callback doesn't get to be called at all. -- Erol M. Fornoles http://github.com/Erol http://twitter.com/erolfornoles http://ph.linkedin.com/in/erolfornoles -- 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.
