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Friday, October 09 2009

2160 nested_attributes: validates_uniqueness_of fails was updated in Ruby on Rails

Andrew France commented at 1:11 AM
OMG Lighthouse is so shit, sorry about the mess.

Andrew France commented at 1:05 AM

Hi Eloy, I think my workaround is a bit of a kludge:

class Author
  has_many :books

  # Could easily be made a validation-style class method of course
  valid...

Thursday, October 08 2009

2160 nested_attributes: validates_uniqueness_of fails was updated in Ruby on Rails

- Tag changed from 2.3.x to nested attributes, 2.3.x, accepts_nested_attributes_for, validates_uniqueness_of
by Andrew France at 5:22 AM
No one seems to have said this explicitly but I believe the problem is simply that validates_uniqueness_of cannot work with nested attributes because the valida...

Monday, July 13 2009

2648 Accept arrays for nested attributes fields_for was updated in Ruby on Rails

Andrew France commented at 2:43 PM
That's much neater and as far as I can tell the logic is identical, thanks Eloy!

Thursday, June 11 2009

2121 "warning: default 'to_a' will be obsolete" from method_missing in association... was updated in Ruby on Rails

Andrew France commented at 7:03 PM
If you unpack rails into the vendor directory you could add something like this immediately before the line that generates the warning in association_proxy:
```
pu...
```

Tuesday, June 09 2009

2365 add :new_if_blank option to fields_for for nested associations was updated in Ruby on Rails

Andrew France commented at 11:42 AM
Association array determination is a problem I looked at when putting together my patch #2648. As far as I can tell the is_a? will not be intercepted by the col...

Friday, May 15 2009

2648 Accept arrays for nested attributes fields_for was created in Ruby on Rails

Andrew France created the ticket at 1:20 AM
It would be nice to supply an array to fields_for when working with nested attributes, like so:
```
# In controller:
@selected_books = @author.books.all(:condition...
```