Question

I have an app using Mongoid on top of MongoDB and an update is failing silently.

The code looks like this:

# Are we getting a new attribute? Yes we are!
p "attr first name = #{@attributes['first_name']}"

if user.update_attributes!(@attributes)
   u = User.find(params[:id]).to_json
end

No exception is thrown in this code. So I looked at my MongoDB log and constructed this query based on what mongo is trying to do:

db.users.update({ "_id": "4d5561276ce886c496000001" }, { $set: { "first_name": "Erinamodobo" } }, false);

Now this does not cause any exceptions but when I grab the record that was supposed to be updated with this query:

db.users.find({"email":"[e-mail]"})

I see that the “first_name” attribute has not been updated.

Any idea why this could be happening? Sounds like something stupid.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Updating Mongoid to the latest rc.7 fixed this issue