Question

I have a field in an Order table that gets populated by other values which works fine as per example below:

company_name: A-Z Traders
company_tel: [phone]
MD5_hash_field: A-Z Traders|[phone]

This is working on the creation of the record through hidden field.

What I require is that MD5_hash_field then gets MD5 hashed before it is saved into the database.

Tried adding the following:

before_create :hash_field

def hash_field
  self.md5_field = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(self.md5_field)
end

But does not seem to do anything

Edit:

It does Work to a Degree

<%= f.hidden_field :checksum, :value => '10011013800|Customer1|3299|ZAR|http://localhost|2012-01-30 18:30:00|secret' %> 

   Result should be: 31d1244f08a62f0551e9263c4835ba88

   but getting : aae1ee590e4d4e08e7c0363cca90a22b

Solved:

This Does Work! - Fellow Developers when working on multiple Applications make sure you are restarting the correct App. LOL

Answer 1

Couldn’t you change the code to

def hash_field
  p self.md5_field
  self.md5_field = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(self.md5_field)
end

And see what it gives you in the logs?