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Never had that happen.

I see you have a created_by attribute in there. Where and how is that being set. My guess is that you have something overriding the default rails timestamps and it is not working as expected. Does updated_at work as expected?

I set the created_by using the current_user from restfulauthentication.

The thing I don’t get is that its getting populated from the active record, but when you access it then its nil.

Sorry updated_at does not work either

Odd… what does @company.attributes[‘created_at’] report?

And what happens if you use company=Company.find(:first) (without the ”@” prefix), and then try company.created_at?

Certainly a weird problem. What database are you using? Can you go to the db console and execute “describe companies” so we can check the field types? Have you hooked into any of the ActiveRecord callbacks in your Company model? Do you get anything for company.updated_at_before_type_cast or company.created_at_before_type_cast ?

Colin: Does this happen with other records as well or is this the only record with problems? And, as Jon said, having those attributes’ values before typecast may help find the problem.

It sounds like your Company model is doing something bad. Could you post a copy of it. Also what version of Rails are you on.

Hi, Thanks for all your time and input sorry for the delay getting back long weekend here

I’m using SQLSERVER 2005.

@company.attributes[‘created_at’] reports
Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 +0000 2008

@company.created_at_before_type_cast reports
“2008/12/04 00:00:00”

and @company.created_at comes back with nil

code is

class Company < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :users has_many :employees validates_presence_of :company_registered_number, :message => “The Company Registered Number cannot be blank” validates_presence_of :address_line_1, :city, :state, :country, :parent, :ultimate_parent :message => “cannot be blank”

validates_numericality_of :max_number_replies,
     :message => "The number of replies must be a number" 
 validates_numericality_of :id, :on => :update,:greater_than => 0
   validates_uniqueness_of :company_name, 
       :message  => "This company name is already being used" 
 validates_uniqueness_of:licence, 
       :message  => "This licence is already being used" 
 validates_uniqueness_of:company_registered_number,
       :message  => "This company number is already being used" 
 validates_uniqueness_of:sales_tax_number,
   :message    => "This sales tax number is already being used" 
validates_format_of :company_name,
   :with    => /^.{2,}/,
   :message  => "A Company Name must contain one or more words"

There’s a comma missing on that line, before :message.

Can you paste your code again, but put html code tags around it?

Hi, after much angst, i’ve tracked this down to an issue with a plugin – its the validate_dates plugin. I’m contacting the author for some advice.