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authorAmparo Luna + Guillermo Iguaran <amparo.m.luna@gmail.com+guilleiguaran@gmail.com>2013-01-02 16:40:48 -0500
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Change guides to use update instead of update_attributes
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@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ value, like so:
```ruby
user = User.find_by_name('David')
-user.update_attributes(name: 'Dave')
+user.update(name: 'Dave')
```
This is most useful when updating several attributes at once. If, on the other
@@ -307,10 +307,10 @@ models and validate that an attribute value is not empty, is unique and not
already in the database, follows a specific format and many more.
Validation is a very important issue to consider when persisting to database, so
-the methods `create`, `save` and `update_attributes` take it into account when
+the methods `create`, `save` and `update` take it into account when
running: they return `false` when validation fails and they didn't actually
perform any operation on database. All of these have a bang counterpart (that
-is, `create!`, `save!` and `update_attributes!`), which are stricter in that
+is, `create!`, `save!` and `update!`), which are stricter in that
they raise the exception `ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid` if validation fails.
A quick example to illustrate: