Please tell me I'm just confused, but this is very strange.
I have a migration like so:
class AddLevelToRequest < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up add_column :requests, :title_levels, :string end def self.down remove_column :requests, :title_levels end end
Run the migration, and from the console do:
r = Request.new
=> #<Request:0x31a243c @attributes={"title_levels"=>nil, "department"=>nil, ...
So far so good. My new attribute is there. Now do:
r = Request.new(:title_levels => "1,2,3")
=> #<Request:0x30d3524 @attributes={"title_levels"=>nil, "department"=>nil, ...
What happened? Where did my attribute value go? If I do:
r = Request.new(:department => "1,2,3")
=> #<Request:0x30c7698 @attributes={"title_levels"=>nil, "department"=>"1,2,3", ...
The department attribute was created with the table.
I can do the following:
r.title_levels = "1,2,3"
=> "1,2,3"
r
=> #<Request:0x30c7698 @attributes={"title_levels"=>"1,2,3", ...
Is something broken with add_column? I tried several different forms, but it seems that no matter what I do I can't get new columns to work with new. I also tried adding more columns, but all columns added with add_column exhibited the same behavior.
I first noticed this when I tried to submit a form, but @request = Request.new(params[:request]) was not picking up the title_levels field.
I'm using Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 1.2.6, and MySql 5.0.41 on Max OS 10.4.