How to call ActiveRecord::Base's load-method?

To do a special kind of validation in an ActiveRecord-based model I need to manually do the update_attributes-steps: load(params) && save

But when I try to call "load" on my Model's instance (m开发者_如何学运维ymodel.load(params)) it calls "load" on ActiveSupport, trying to load a file.

Is there a way to tell Rails to use the ActiveRecord-method?

Thanks!

Regards Marc

I think you want the assign_attribute method of ActiveRecord::Base.

I'm using Rails 3.1.3, but hopefully this is correct for you.

The update_attributes source you pasted belongs to ActiveResource::Base, not toActiveRecord::Base. I just made that mistake myself: Is it possible to call ActiveResource::Base#load? ActiveRecord::Base does not supply a load method. Instead the load method of Object is called, which appears to be supplied by ActiveSupport's Loadable module in activesupport-3.1.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb.

Straight from the source:

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb, line 2665
def update_attributes(attributes)
  self.attributes = attributes
  save
end

Actually it's rails 2, but I imagine it didn't change all that much.