I’ve been pulling my hair our over this same problem for the last few hours… Did you ever figure out the resolution? I found this thread here: http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2005-December/007657.html but see at the time you were not able to get an answer from the list.
Any suggestion greatly appreciated!
Chris
I've got a really strange problem using belongs_to. I apologize in
advance for the length... this is going to take a while to explain.
Basic idea: Creating a User requires that the user enter an email
address and activation key that matches an existing PendingUser.
After creating the user successfully, that pending user should be
marked as "used".
The problem:
When I add a belongs_to :pending_user declaration to the User class,
attempting to save a User yields this exception (taken here from the
output of a simple test case -- code below.) You'll note some lines
in the User class with two hashes '##' preceding them -- those are
alternate statements that avoid using the .pending_user attribute. If
you comment out the belongs_to :pending_user and use the alternate
statements (which just work with the pending_user_id field),
everything seems to work fine.
1) Error:
test_create_with_valid_pending_user(UserTest):
NoMethodError: undefined method `updated?' for #<PendingUser:0x8d09310>
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/base.rb:1498:in `method_missing'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/callbacks.rb:341:in `callback'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/callbacks.rb:335:in `callback'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/callbacks.rb:330:in `each'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/callbacks.rb:330:in `callback'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/callbacks.rb:248:in `create_or_update'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/base.rb:1226:in `save_without_validation'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/validations.rb:698:in `save_without_transactions'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/transactions.rb:126:in `save'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/transactions.rb:126:in `transaction'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/transactions.rb:91:in `transaction'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/transactions.rb:118:in `transaction'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.13.2/lib/
active_record/transactions.rb:126:in `save'
test/unit/user_test.rb:62:in `test_create_with_valid_pending_user'
I'm not calling the 'updated?' method anywhere in my code, but
looking in ${PREFIX}/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/activerecord-1.13.2/rdoc/
classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods.src, it seems that
belongs_to calls the .updated? method.
Any light you can shed would be greatly appreciated -- I've been
banging my head against this for a few days, and no one on
#rubyonrails on freenode has been able to figure out what's going on.
-Marshall Pierce
Code follows...
Test case:
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'
class UserTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
fixtures :accounts, :pending_users
# we don't need the users fixture -- all we're testing here is
creating a new user
# and the corresponding validation of the associated pending user
and account
def setup
@new = User.new
# give it a valid email address
@new.email_address = pending_users(:ok_req).email_address
@new.password = @new.password_confirmation = 'doesntmatter'
@new.activation_key = 'activationkey'
@new.account_id = pending_users(:ok_req).account_id
end
def test_create_with_valid_pending_user
assert @new.save
end
end
SQL definitions for the tables for the classes involved (postgresql):
DROP TABLE generic_users CASCADE;
CREATE TABLE generic_users (
password_hash text NOT NULL
, email_address text UNIQUE NOT NULL
, created_at timestamp with time zone NOT NULL
, updated_at timestamp with time zone NOT NULL
);
DROP TABLE users CASCADE;
CREATE TABLE users (
LIKE generic_users INCLUDING DEFAULTS
, id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY
, account_id int NOT NULL REFERENCES accounts(id) ON
UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
, is_account_admin bool NOT NULL DEFAULT false
, email_validation_key text NOT NULL
, email_validated bool NOT NULL DEFAULT false
, pending_user_id int NOT NULL REFERENCES pending_users(id)
ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
);
DROP TABLE pending_users CASCADE;
CREATE TABLE pending_users (
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY
, account_id int NOT NULL REFERENCES accounts(id) ON
UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
, email_address text UNIQUE NOT NULL
, activation_key_hash text NOT NULL
, created_at timestamp with time zone NOT NULL
, updated_at timestamp with time zone NOT NULL
, used bool NOT NULL DEFAULT false
);
The class definitions: (yeah, I know -- re-implementing login logic
yet again is dumb, but this isn't near completion yet, so don't give
me too much grief about it. :)
class GenericUser < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_presence_of :password, :password_confirmation, :email_address
validates_uniqueness_of :email_address
validates_confirmation_of :password
# password must be at least 8 characters long
validates_format_of :password, :with => %r{^.{8,}$}, :message =>
"must be at least 8 characters"
validates_format_of :email_address, :with => MiscUtils::EMAIL_REGEX
# user can only supply these params
attr_accessible :password, :password_confirmation, :email_address
# class variable -- see koz's post [http://www.koziarski.net/
](http://www.koziarski.net/)
archives/2005/07/16/environment
cattr_accessor :current_user
# non-db variables
attr_accessor :password
def before_save
#breakpoint("generic user before_save")
# save the new hash if the password is set
# XXX - only set password_hash during methods that can change
password
self.password_hash = MiscUtils.hexdigest(@password) unless
@password.nil?
end
def after_save
@password = nil
@password_confirmation = nil
end
def try_to_login
self.class.lookup(self.email_address, @password)
end
# Class methods
def self.lookup(email_address, password, additional_conds = '')
hashed_password = MiscUtils.hexdigest(password)
begin
find( :first,
:conditions => ["email_address = ? and password_hash
= ?" + additional_conds,
email_address, hashed_password])
rescue
return nil
end
end
end