change you password validation to add :on => :create to your password validation. It makes it so the validations are only called for the specified controller action.
example: validates :password, :presence => true, :on => :create Check out the rails guide for more info http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_validations_callbacks.html#on On Jan 17, 3:12 am, Daisy Di <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Dear All > i follow the instruction of Ruby on rails 3 tutorial, now i want to > update the email of the User, > user =User.find(1) > user.update_attributes(:email=>"t...@gmail.com") > > but the save failed, error message is "password can not be blank", > so i try this one > user.update_attributes(:email=>"t...@gmail.com", :password =>"12345678") > then it success,but i dont want to update the password, i try a lots > times that is i want to change the value of other attributes, i must > update the password, if not ,the updating will fail. > > how can i update without updating the password ? > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
