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Marcin Doliwa
Marcin Doliwa

Reputation: 3659

Validation problems on manual update of attribute value in Rails console

I have a simple problem. I want to change some field value for my User.find(1) in rails console.

I tried:

u = User.find(1)
u.update_attributes(roles_mask: 3)

And got false returned. When I check u.errors.full_messages, I see that it's because there is a problem with password validation from has_secure_password. How can I update it manually in the console?

Upvotes: 44

Views: 51804

Answers (4)

Tarun Rathi
Tarun Rathi

Reputation: 597

You can have something like this 

Post.find(1).comments.first.update(body: "hello")

or

@u = Post.find(1)
@u.comments.first.update(body: "hello")

where comments is the name of the comment table, body is the name of column in the comment table.

This applies when you have nested attribute

post.rb

has_many: comments
accept_nested_attributes_for: comment

comment.rb

belongs_to: post

Upvotes: 4

alestanis
alestanis

Reputation: 21863

You can try update_attribute(:roles_mask, 3) or update_column(:roles_mask, 3).

Upvotes: 5

Muhamamd Awais
Muhamamd Awais

Reputation: 2385

You have to authenticate the user first then you can update the user have a look here

u = User.find(1)
u.authenticate("password")
u.update_attributes(roles_mask: 3)

Or if you want to skip the validations you can do as follow;

u = User.find(1)
u.update_attribute :roles_mask, 3

Upvotes: 11

jvnill
jvnill

Reputation: 29599

if you want to bypass validation, use

# skip validations but run callbacks
u.update_attribute :roles_mask, 3

or

# do the update on the sql so no validation and callback is executed
u.update_column :roles_mask, 3

Upvotes: 72

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