Active Record unable to save if boolean is set to false

If your before_save function returns false, then rails won't save the object as it cancels all callbacks. You're assigning false to self.verified, which returns the value of self.verified which is false, so it doesn't save. Not really a bug, just how the before_* functions work.

From the docs:

If a before_* callback returns false, all the later callbacks and the associated action are cancelled. If an after_* callback returns false, all the later callbacks are cancelled. Callbacks are generally run in the order they are defined, with the exception of callbacks defined as methods on the model, which are called last.

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