On 11 August 2011 20:21, Leonel *.* <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a typical rails form with form_for(@user...blah blah) > > There is a field to enter the email address: email. But that same email > address has to be entered into the invitation_last_sent_to. So the same > value, in two different columns. > > There is no problem when saving in the column 'email' but I want to save > that same email value into invitation_last_sent_to column in the > controller. > > I have tried the following in users_controller.rb and when I get the > rails console, the value in invitation_last_sent_to is always nil. > > @user.invitation_last_sent_to = @user.email > @user.invitation_last_sent_to = params[:user][:email] > @user.invitation_last_sent_to = params[:email]
Use ruby-debug to break into your code here and inspect the data and see what is going on. See the Rails Guide on debugging for how to do this. I presume, though, that you are doing the above in the create action before the save, or in the update action before update_attributes. Colin -- 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.
