gistfile1.rb

>> phil@amanuensis:~/src/hengage$ heroku console
Ruby console for hengage.heroku.com

>> BadMessage
=> BadMessage(id: integer, phone_number: string, body: string, received_at: datetime, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime, is_new: boolean, on_watch_list: boolean, reply_count: integer)

# There's my new counter_cache column, reply_count. Let's initialize it to 0 on every record...

>> BadMessage.all.each {|bm| bm.reply_count = 0; bm.save!}; nil
=> nil

# How nice! No exceptions, it must have worked, right?

>> bm = BadMessage.first
=> #<BadMessage id: 7, phone_number: "[REDACTED]", body: "[REDACTED]", received_at: "2011-03-03 11:49:13", created_at: "2011-03-03 11:49:13", updated_at: "2011-03-22 21:31:06", is_new: nil, on_watch_list: nil, reply_count: nil>

# Well that's odd.

>> bm.reply_count = 0
=> 0
>> bm.valid?
=> true
>> bm.save
=> true
>> bm.reply_count
=> 0
>> bm.reload.reply_count
=> nil

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