form_for (or erb) is pulling floats instead of ints in ActiveRecord
My team is currently upgrading a rails app from 3.2.3 to 4.0 with JRuby
1.7.10 backed by Oracle. Under Rails 3.2.3 everything is nice and
happy…
We have a model called JobMetadata and every numeric column is an
integer (although Oracle does store them as Number(38). The database is
unchanged from 3.2.3 to 4.0.
Suppose I have an instance (of JobMetadata ) called jmd, and I reference
jmd.max_execution_time. jmd.max_execution_time.class is a FixNum ( in
4.0 – yay).
If I pull it out in erb (via form_for) it always pulls out a string
representation of a float like “60.0” in 4.0 (but “60” in 3.2.3).
For example:
<%= form_for(@job_metadata, :url => { :action => “update” }) do |f| %>
<%= f.text_field :max_execution_minutes, :size=>10%>
Would yield “60” in the text field in 3.2.3 but “60.0” in 4.0.
We “fixed” this issue via:
<%= f.text_field :max_execution_minutes, :size=>10, :value =>
f.object.max_execution_minutes %>
Such a fix makes us a little queasy, and the root of the problem was
waiting to haunt us in other ways…
When we attempt to hit the update page for our Jobmetadata via:
@job_metadata.update_attributes(params[:job_metadata])
It fails, why? Well our Jobmetadata model does have the following
relationship:
has_many :escalations, -> { order(“priority ASC”) }, {dependent:
:destroy}
When erb pulls out the index for our escalation this is what we see:
Note that the index is a float :-(. When we examine this value in
params via the debugger we also see this.
The update fails as it expects a FixNum for an ID.
Interestingly the ID for the Jobmetadata itself is an integer type
value. I suspect this is because it is yanked from the route.
I will also post this in the JRuby forum in case this is a JRuby issue.
Much thanks.
Cris
my Gem list is below:
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
actionmailer (4.0.0, 3.2.16, 3.2.3)
actionpack (4.0.0, 3.2.16, 3.2.3)
activemodel (4.0.0, 3.2.16, 3.2.3)
activerecord (4.0.0, 3.2.16, 3.2.3)
activerecord-deprecated_finders (1.0.3)
activerecord-jdbc-adapter (1.3.5)
activerecord-jdbcsqlite3-adapter (1.3.5)
activeresource (3.2.16, 3.2.3)
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american_date (1.1.0)
arel (4.0.1, 3.0.3)
atomic (1.1.14 java)
bcrypt-ruby (3.1.2 java)
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builder (3.1.4, 3.0.4)
bundler (1.5.2)
chronic (0.10.2)
coffee-rails (4.0.1, 3.2.2)
coffee-script (2.2.0)
coffee-script-source (1.6.3)
devise (3.2.2, 2.2.8)
devise-encryptable (0.1.2)
erubis (2.7.0)
execjs (2.0.2)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
hike (1.2.3)
hoe (3.8.1, 3.8.0)
i18n (0.6.9)
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journey (1.0.4)
jquery-rails (3.0.4)
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rack (1.5.2, 1.4.5)
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rails (4.0.0, 3.2.16, 3.2.3)
railties (4.0.0, 3.2.16, 3.2.3)
rake (10.1.1, 10.1.0)
rdoc (4.1.1, 4.0.1, 3.12.2)
ruby-debug-base (0.10.5.rc9 java)
ruby-debug-ide (0.4.22)
rubyzip (1.0.0)
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sass-rails (4.0.1, 3.2.6)
sdoc (0.4.0)
sprockets (2.10.1, 2.2.2, 2.1.3)
sprockets-rails (2.0.1)
therubyrhino (2.0.2)
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thor (0.18.1, 0.14.6)
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