validates_uniqueness_of not working - urgent

I'm using restful_authentication to let users register and login. Lately, however, I'm seeing multiple login and emails being created even though I have validates_uniqueness_of as below:

user.rb validates_uniqueness_of :login, :email, :case_sensitive => false

I'm using restful_authentication to let users register and login. Lately, however, I'm seeing multiple login and emails being created even though I have validates_uniqueness_of as below:

Have you checked they don't differ only by a space or something? Other
than that validates_uniqueness_of is vulnerable to race conditions. If
you want a 100% reliable enforcement of this, use a unique index.