[Rails] Re: ActiveRecord not writing to tables

Thanks all, so I was right. I was missing something fundamental :) Kevin On Sep 7, 2:04 pm, "Conrad Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, there's no magic happening.  You're simply invoking save on the wrong > instance.  Just because one invokes save on a parent instance it doesn't > automat

[Rails] Re: ActiveRecord not writing to tables

Hi, there's no magic happening. You're simply invoking save on the wrong instance. Just because one invokes save on a parent instance it doesn't automatically invoke save on its children. In most cases, this would be very inefficient. I would recommend learning/understanding more about ActiveRe

[Rails] Re: ActiveRecord not writing to tables

When you do this code > wf = WeeklyFixture(6) # where 6 is an id in the table so the wf is > found! > wf.football_fixtures[0].name = "value" > wf.save! the wf has not been changed in any way. It point in the same football_fixtures item by its foreign key. The football_fixtures has changed and yo