# Update\_attributes

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-attributes/49595>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 22, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-attributes/49595 "2005-11-22T21:03:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Marc.Love](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@Marc.Love](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marc.Love)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-attributes/49595/1 "2005-11-22T21:03:57Z")

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Is there a way to find out why an update\_attributes command returned  
false? After upgrade to 0.14.3, one of my update\_attributes commands is  
no longer working, but I don’t know of any way to find out why.

Marc  
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**Author:** ![Marc.Love](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@Marc.Love](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marc.Love)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-attributes/49595/2 "2005-11-22T21:20:08Z")

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On 22.11.2005, at 22.01, Marc L. wrote:

> Is there a way to find out why an update\_attributes command returned  
> false? After upgrade to 0.14.3, one of my update\_attributes  
> commands is  
> no longer working, but I don’t know of any way to find out why.

Try to repeat the command in script/console and see what the object’s  
errors attribute contains. update\_attributes returns false if the  
validations fail.

//jarkko

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**Author:** ![Marc.Love](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@Marc.Love](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marc.Love)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-attributes/49595/3 "2007-09-25T23:07:17Z")

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Thanks for the help Bill. So to be clear, validation rules apply on  
update\_attributes even if there attributes are NOT included in the  
update\_attributes to be changed. Is that because the update actually  
calls to update all the information?

Thanks again!

-E