Validates_uniqueness_of - how did I get two users?

Rails
1

I have the following in my user model:

validates_uniqueness_of :login, :email, :case_sensitive => false

yet somehow I ended up with two users with the same email. Does this
line mean that the COMBINATION is unique (I didn’t think it did).

Should I have this instead:

validates_uniqueness_of :login, :case_sensitive => false
validates_uniqueness_of :email, :case_sensitive => false

Any ideas?

2

No, it doesn’t mean that the combination is unique, it means that
:login and :email are going to be unique.

There are two possible reasons, the user was added manually at the
database (which is bad, as the database should have a unique index at
both columns) or you got into a racing condition, where the two
selects hit the database at the same time and thus both returned
false.

Best thing to do is to improve you database schema by creating some
unique indexes that reflect your validations.

Maurício Linhares
http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://blog.codevader.com/
(en)

3

The odd thing is that the users were created through the website two
months apart!

On Feb 28, 10:41 pm, Maurício Linhares [email protected]

4

In ActiveRecord::Base, the save method takes a flag called
perform_validation, which you can set to false. Check your controller
code to make sure someone didn’t decide to skip the validations
somewhere.