# Updating the same record without change

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-the-same-record-without-change/133770>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 3, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-the-same-record-without-change/133770 "2008-04-03T12:07:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![vapor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@vapor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vapor)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-the-same-record-without-change/133770/1 "2008-04-03T12:07:37Z")

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In scaffold, if I click Edit and press Update without changing anything,  
it still says record updated.  
How can I check if user really updated something and didn’t just press  
Update?

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**Author:** ![vapor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@vapor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vapor)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/updating-the-same-record-without-change/133770/2 "2008-04-12T23:41:18Z")

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check out  
[http://caboo.se/doc/classes/ActiveRecord/Dirty.html](http://caboo.se/doc/classes/ActiveRecord/Dirty.html)