On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:04 PM, tom <[email protected]> wrote: > @why > sometimes u just need to display another e 10digits number which u can > trace back and is still unique > @how > still not sure if a loop is the right way
You can just try to save and be prepared to catch the validation failure, which will require you to loop until the save succeeds. Or you could pre-generate a list of guaranteed unique invoice ids to use, which would eliminate all that. TMTOWTDI :-) -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan -- 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.

