Invalid ActiveRecord Rails Object

Question

I have this table in which serialized objects are stored:

class CachedObject < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :key, :data validates_uniqueness_of :key end 

The data column stores the serialized object indexed by the key. Pretty simple. I run this code for testing:

 key = "test" obj = {"test" => "test"} row = CachedObject.find_or_create_by_key key row.data = obj.to_json row.save 

The object is created, but does not save it back to the database. No error messages. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

• .save returns true or false . .save! causes errors. If you need to know why something is going wrong with a (somewhat) verbose message, use .save! .

• If key not unique, data will not be saved because the model will not pass validation. Try running Model.where(:key => 'test').destroy_all and reevaluate.