Ruby on Rails Callback, what is difference between :before_save and :before_create?

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Agung Prasetyo picture Agung Prasetyo · Jun 6, 2011 · Viewed 73.7k times · Source

Could you explain in detail what the :before_save and :before_create Ruby on Rails callbacks are, and what they have to do with Rails validations? Does validation occur after :before_save or :before_create?

Answer

Chowlett picture Chowlett · Jun 6, 2011

In a create operation under Rails, there are six callbacks before the database operation, and two after. In order, these are:

  1. before_validation
  2. before_validation_on_create
  3. after_validation
  4. after_validation_on_create
  5. before_save
  6. before_create

    DATABASE INSERT
  7. after_create
  8. after_save

Update operations have exactly the same set, except read update instead of create everywhere (and UPDATE instead of INSERT).

From this, you can see that validation is carried out before the before_save and before_create callbacks.

The before_save occurs slightly before the before_create. To the best of my knowledge, nothing happens between them; but before_save will also fire on Update operations, while before_create will only fire on Creates.

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