From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-02-05T04:46:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding duplicate records before creating using FasterCS

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:15 PM, John Mcleod wrote:
> 
>> I'm thinking about putting a conditional to check for the duplicates via
>> column name.
> 
> Why not just add a validates_uniqueness_of() validation the the Irb 
> model, so it will block the save of duplicate records?

And follow that up with a unique index in the DB.  Validations are 
insufficient by themselves.

> 
> James Edward Gray II

Best,
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