Validate_on_update compare old value to new value

Rails
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Hello,
After a model has been saved I want to prevent some of it’s fields
from being updated. I was going to do this by overriding
validate_on_update but I don’t know how to access the old value to
compare it to the new value.
Cheers,
Ewan

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Hello,
After a model has been saved I want to prevent some of it’s fields
from being updated. I was going to do this by overriding
validate_on_update but I don’t know how to access the old value to
compare it to the new value.
Cheers,
Ewan

How about overriding the setter methods for those fields you want to
lock. Something like…

def title=(t)
self[:title] = t if self.new_record?
end

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Hello Jon,
Thanks for the reply.
I made the attribute read only doing

attr_readonly :title

Ewan