Question

So it seems that I must be doing this wrong.

Task.create :name => 'apples'
   (0.2ms)  begin transaction
   (0.2ms)  rollback transaction
 => #<Task id: nil, name: "apples", task: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> 

Then I thought, maybe my controller is wrong:

  def create
    Task.create(params[:task])
    redirect_to tasks_path, :flash => {:success => 'We have created the task.'}
  end

because it seems that my tests, using capybara, are failing – because they can’t create a task…..

thoughts?

Answer 1

You can’t save a Rails model to the database if it has a validation which fails, or a before_save callback which returns false