Question

I have a seeds.rb file and for some reason, this doesn’t work:

#doesn't work
u=User.new
u['email']=h['email']
u['password']=h['password']
puts u['email']
puts u['password']
if u.save
  puts "that saved"
else
  puts "that did not save"
end

but this does:

#does work
User.create({:email => h['email'], :password => h['password']})

Is there any reason one works and one doesn’t? From rails console, the first does work? Would there be any differences in validations? I run ‘rake db:seed’ so would think validations would be in effect in both.

thx

edit #1
sorry for lack of info. each one errors with “password can’t be blank” but it then echoes out the password. Hmm…

Answer 1

Find out what’s happening by looking at the validation errors:

else
  puts "that did not save because " + u.errors.join(' ')
end

Edit: Now that you’ve added that validation errors contain 'password cant be blank' and it still fails to save, it becomes clear that User.create() does a number of things which User.save() omits.

What’s missing is the generation of your password hash – hence the blank password error.