validate callback balks when using AR.find method

I do exactly what you describe with no problems. Are you sure you have not just got a typo somewhere that your brain is refusing to see?

Colin Law wrote:

I do exactly what you describe with no problems. Are you sure you have not just got a typo somewhere that your brain is refusing to see?

Always a possibility. I'll keep looking. But thanks for the verification that it should work.

Other possible extenuating circumstances I realized might be worth mentioning:

- this is a 1.2.6 legacy app - PrivilegedUser is actually a subclass of an abstract class to facilitate connecting to multiple databases w/in the same app. However, this hasn't posed any problems anywhere else.

class CountyActiveRecord < ActiveRecord::Base   @@county_domain = Thread.current[:county_domain]   self.abstract_class = true   establish_connection("#{RAILS_ENV}_#{@@county_domain}".to_sym) end

class PrivilegedUser < CountyActiveRecord   ..... etc etc..... end

-- gw