# Help --- My phone number field saves blank **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 25, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-my-phone-number-field-saves-blank/168758 "2009-05-25T14:00:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-my-phone-number-field-saves-blank/168758/1 "2009-05-25T14:00:38Z")
I have a phone field in my table. But in my form i have two text boxes to get the phone number and the country code like below Enter country code ----- Enter phone code ------ In my table i have to save the phone code field after joining the above values with “-” symbol. Example =\> 0225-25874255 I dont have table field for country\_code . So i created like below attr\_accessor :phone , :country\_code I have given for validation like below validates\_presence\_of :country\_code, :message =\> ‘\*The country code is required.’ @user = UserInfo.new() phone\_code = params[:userinfo][:country\_code] +’-’+ params[:userinfo][:phone\_code] @user.name = params[:userinfo][:name] @user.phone = phone\_code @user.save when i save,my phone field is blank… what i m doing wrong… pls guide me. ---
**Author:** ![newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/2acd7d/32.png) [@newb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newb)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-my-phone-number-field-saves-blank/168758/2 "2009-05-25T14:22:20Z")
On May 25, 1:00 pm, Newb N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I dont have table field for country\_code . > So i created like below > attr\_accessor :phone , :country\_code You don’t need attr\_accessor for :phone since you already have a phone column (if i understand correctly). When used like this attr\_accessor overwrites the accessors that ActiveRecord provides. Fred