14:54 <nvg> I have a question about updating records.. I'm running into a problem with updating attributes for a sinatra / datamapper project. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something or doing something wrong but I haven't found it yet. I'm hoping someone can point me in the correct direction. I have an example of what I'm encountering at <http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1PAn4qw4>

15:05 <mikecmpbll> nvg: maybe validation is failing?

15:05 <mikecmpbll> owait, nvm.

15:07 <nvg> If I update within the same irb session, the record gets correctly updated. If I relaunch irb, the record update fails. I think this is because the property is a key. I can update properties that are not key.

15:10 <mikecmpbll> nvg: having a default value for a key attribute seems kinda weird.

15:18 <nvg> I made it a non-key attribute and it updates now.

15:18 <nvg> mikecmpbll: I'll work at this some more, thanks for looking.

15:19 <mikecmpbll> nvg: no probs. I've only used data mapper a little bit in a small sinatra app.

15:22 <nvg> this is the first time I'm using datamapper and sinatra... except for a some very crude proof of concept items

17:22 <Aristata> If I have an attribute in x.dirty_attributes, how can I get the original value?

20:36 <Eiam> namelessjon: any theories on hwio to track down DataObjects::ConnectionError - :

20:36 <Eiam> there is no actual error beyond that

20:36 <Eiam> it starts in a basic .get call e.g MyModel.get(id=>blah)

21:21 <namelessjon> Eiam: Are you using something like unicorn?

21:21 <Eiam> namelessjon: nginx + passenger phusion

21:22 <namelessjon> Hmmm.

22:06 <onewheelskyward> Is there a good way for me to put functions in for a field in datamapper without resorting to a raw query?

22:07 <onewheelskyward> I want to say, select id, payload->'data', using the new postgres json field operators.

22:07 <onewheelskyward> I tried putting a string in the fields: array but it just ignored it.

22:11 <onewheelskyward> oops, that was an also_reload problem. It actually complains about it not being a field. I guess I'm trying to pre-mutate this thing which is why Datamapper is mad.