I have the following model:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base devise :registerable, :database_authenticatable, :recoverable, :confirmable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable attr_accessor_with_default :role, 'user' attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :first_name, :last_name, :company_name, :phone, :role end
Role is a column in my database (I'm beginning to wonder if my troubles start there.)
Here's a playback of an irb session on this model:
>> u = User.new => #<User id: nil, email: "", encrypted_password: "", password_salt: "", confirmation_token: nil, confirmed_at: nil, confirmation_sent_at: nil, reset_password_token: nil, remember_token: nil, remember_created_at: nil, sign_in_count: 0, current_sign_in_at: nil, last_sign_in_at: nil, current_sign_in_ip: nil, last_sign_in_ip: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil, first_name: nil, last_name: nil, company_name: nil, phone: nil, role: nil> >> u.email = 'foo@bar.com' => "foo@bar.com" >> u.password = u.password_confirmation = 'abc123' => "abc123" >> u.role => "user"
So far, so good, I'm getting a default value here. Next, we assign a different value.
>> u.role = 'admin' => "admin" >> u.save! => true
Okay, looks good. Try an immediate check to see what the value is:
>> u.role => "admin"
Now let's find it again from scratch, to reload what the database believes is true:
>> u = User.find_by_email('foo@bar.com') => #<User id: 6, email: "foo@bar.com", encrypted_password: "1971f891cd2e83ef0d2fe9ba31b548cb2740573d", password_salt: "ENAl9O1NDurotmGjeBJT", confirmation_token: "SEHEmHUYtmaeaeHPLq4y", confirmed_at: nil, confirmation_sent_at: "2010-09-18 14:05:26", reset_password_token: nil, remember_token: nil, remember_created_at: nil, sign_in_count: 0, current_sign_in_at: nil, last_sign_in_at: nil, current_sign_in_ip: nil, last_sign_in_ip: nil, created_at: "2010-09-18 14:05:26", updated_at: "2010-09-18 14:05:26", first_name: nil, last_name: nil, company_name: nil, phone: nil, role: nil>
And we are at this point, where I ask WTF??
>> u.role => "user"
Do I have a fundamental misunderstanding of this feature? Should I be setting my default in the database instead, since it's a column? What do you use an attr_accessor for, let alone one with a handy default value?
Thanks in advance,
Walter
