Question

I’m using postgresql in development for the first time and have successfully installed the binary onto my 10.6 machine. I’ve created a Rails superuser, createdb => 'vitae_development' with this user. It shows up in $pqsl => '/du', but when I key in /dt, I get ‘no relations’.

My pg gem is pg-0.12.0

In rails 3.10 console, I enter: User.create!(:name => "Sam", :email => "[e-mail]")

The resulting output is:

INSERT INTO "users" ("created_at", "email", "name", "updated_at") VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4) RETURNING "id"  [["created_at", Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:40:13 UTC +00:00], ["email", nil], ["name", nil], ["updated_at", Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:40:13 UTC +00:00]]

That appears to be a bunch of blanks. I’ve searched the googles but must have missed the right search terms.

pgAdmin3 seems to show the tables in place, as best as I can determine, but with no data that I can find.

This is the relevant snippet from my database.yml:

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  database: vitae_development
  username: rails
  password:
  pool: 5
  timeout: 5000

For completeness, here’s the whole user.rb:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessor :name, :email

  email_regex = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i

  validates :name, :presence => true,
                   :length => { :maximum => 50 }
  validates :email, :presence => true,
                    :format => { :with => email_regex },
                    :uniqueness => { :case_insensitive => false }
end

What am I overlooking? I’ve done rake db:migrate.

Answer 1

Did you perhaps override the email or email= methods or put attr_accessor :email in your User.rb file?

EDIT:
Take out line 2 where it says attr_accessor :name, :email. attr_accessor in the context of rails is for object variables that won’t be saved to the database.