Row not updating...

[Darren884]

I am using this:

user = Users.first(:conditions => {:username => params[:user][:username], :email => params[:user][:email]}, :select => 'first_name, email')
user.update_attribute('password', password)

However when I look in phpMyAdmin the row is not updated... am I doing something wrong?

[Darren884]

Also guys does Rails update the database when in development environment or send email in that environment?

[ReggieB]

Using update_attribute should both add the new attribute and save the object to the database. However, it will do so in a way that will bypass validation so it's usually not the best method to use:
http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/A...e.html#M002280

Standard Rails convention is to have three versions of your database. Each database is suffixed with the environment name after an underscore. So for a database called "database", there will be database_production, database_development, database_production. When in development, data will be read to and written from database_development. When in production data will be read and written from database_production. Check config/database.yml for the configuration your application is using.