Be careful with Rails reserved words
- Published October 30th, 2007 in Tips & Tricks, Ruby
They truly mean it!
It took me almost one hour trying to figure out why Model.save was gracefully failing. save! was throwing an InvalidRecord exception but with no details whatsoever on what could be the issue.
The reason was a method valid? that I wrote on that precise model and that was returning false. Rails uses a method called, err, guess what, valid? to check whether the model validates, and since my method was returning false on creation it was blocking saving the record.
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