Thank you so much! The tutorial I was following had attr_accessible :name, :email and I had attr_accessor :name, :email I must have stared at it 100 times and not spotted the difference.
On Jan 9, 7:26 am, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 9, 4:20 am, Pixelguru <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm a newbie learning Rails3 and this issue has my learning stopped in > > its tracks, so I'd greatly appreciate your help. I have a simple test > > app with a User model and name and email fields. In the console, if I > > run > > Don't use attr_accessor - you're replacing the activerecord accessors > that store data in the database with standard ruby ones (that don't) > > Fred > > > > > > > > > @test = User.create!(:name => 'Test Testman', :email => > > '[email protected]') > > I get > > => #<User id: 21, name: nil, email: nil, created_at: "2011-01-09 > > 03:48:00", updated_at: "2011-01-09 03:48:00">. > > Where did my name and email data go? If I check the object I just > > created in the console, > > @test.name > > returns > > => "Test Testman" > > so it made it that far, and it also passed my model validation. > > Looking at the development log, I see NIL values for these fields in > > the SQL. Looking at the DB, I have rows being created with IDs and > > dates, but no name & email. How could data be present in the object > > but not get written into the SQL? My environment is running Ruby > > 1.9.2, Rails 3.0.3 and sqlite3-ruby 1.3.2 (I updated everything in an > > attempt to fix this) . Anyone ever see behavior like this and know the > > fix? > > > Here's all I'm trying to do: > > > class User < ActiveRecord::Base > > attr_accessor :name, :email > > > email_regex = /\a[\w+\-...@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i > > > validates :name, > > :presence => true, > > :length => { :maximum => 50 } > > > validates :email, > > :presence => true, > > :format => { :with => email_regex }, > > :uniqueness => { :case_sensitive => false } > > 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.
