ActiveRecord Errors are all nil

I have an Active Record model in Rails 2.1 that is doing some validation, specifically, these methods:

  validates_presence_of :name, :email, :phone   validates_uniqueness_of :name   validates_format_of :email, :with => /.+@.+\..{2,4}/   validates_confirmation_of :password   validate :has_password   attr_accessor :password

When I try to save a user object that does not meet all of these requirements, the object does not save, but there are no errors either.

Loading development environment (Rails 2.1.0)

user = User.new

=> #<User id: nil, name: nil, email: nil, hashed_password: nil, salt: nil, phone: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>

user.save

=> false

user.errors[:name]

=> nil

Any idea what's going on?

Using your code (minus the parts regarding the password validation), in a test rails app works fine here.