Validates_uniqueness_of before ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique

Rails
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I have the following class in a Rails 3.1.1 app:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me,
:username, :admin, :moderator, :bio
validates_presence_of :username
validates_uniqueness_of :username, :case_sensitive => false
validates_uniqueness_of :email, :case_sensitive => false
and in my migrations:

add_index :users, :email, :unique => true
add_index :users, :username, :unique => true

However, when I try to create two users with duplicate emails or
usernames I get a DB level exception rather than a failing validation:

ActiveRecord::RecordNotUnique in RegistrationsController#create
PGError: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint
“index_users_on_username”

There are other validations that work perfectly, but why aren’t the
uniqueness validations being performed before the DB create?

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On 16 October 2011 05:35, Hesham [email protected] wrote:

add_index :users, :email, :unique => true
add_index :users, :username, :unique => true

However, when I try to create two users with duplicate emails or
usernames I get a DB level exception rather than a failing validation:

If you look in the log can you see it doing the query to look for an
existing matching email or username?

Colin

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On Oct 16, 11:49am, Colin L. [email protected] wrote:

and in my migrations:
Colin
No, there is no such query, just an insert of the record which is
producing the exception.

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On 16 October 2011 11:27, Hesham [email protected] wrote:

validates_presence_of :username
If you look in the log can you see it doing the query to look for an
existing matching email or username?

Colin

No, there is no such query, just an insert of the record which is
producing the exception.

Can you post the code that does the save?
Is the model code you have shown above copied/pasted here from the rb
file?
It should not make any difference but have you tried removing the case
sensitive parameter?
What happens if you make new records and save from the rails console?

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OK - I’m using friendly_id and it seems that it breaks validation in
3.1.1 according to this:

Thanks Colin for taking the time

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On Oct 16, 4:23pm, Colin L. [email protected] wrote:

validates_uniqueness_of :username, :case_sensitive => false
existing matching email or username?

Colin

No, there is no such query, just an insert of the record which is
producing the exception.

Can you post the code that does the save?
The create method is actually in the registration controller of
Devise.

Is the model code you have shown above copied/pasted here from the rb file?
Yes

It should not make any difference but have you tried removing the case
sensitive parameter?
No difference

What happens if you make new records and save from the rails console?

Let mw check

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Following links would help you in this

http://drawohara.com/post/18926188/rails-activerecord-validations-are-fatally-flawed

I would suggest you to use rails 3 validators instead of earlier 1.

Thanks,
Harun

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Hesham [email protected] wrote:

There are other validations that work perfectly, but why aren’t the

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Thanks,
Harun