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Ruby

Posted by Lyric Abbott
Lyric Abbott
35,595 Points

help

How do we make sure that the method calculate_age is called before we save the model?

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/callbacks

my code: before_create :calculate_age

Ross Litzenberger
Ross Litzenberger
11,706 Points
Ross Litzenberger
Ross Litzenberger
11,706 Points

try again before_save How do we make sure that the method calculate_age is called before we save the model?

1 Answer

Mac Eisenberg
Mac Eisenberg
3,653 Points

Yup, before_save. Here is a handy resource that shows the order in which the callbacks are executed: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v3.2.13/active_record_validations_callbacks.html