On p, 235 of "Beginning Ruby on Rails" the "Validating against Inclusion in a List" Try It Out example is not working for me. I created the database and table correctly and even deleted and recreated them to be sure. I also properly edited and saved the field.rb file according to the book's instructions as well as the _form.rhtml file. When I start the WEBrick Server and access http://localhost:3000/manage I am able to click on the link to go to the view to add a new field, but no matter what number I enter whether it is within the 1 to 99 range or not, I receive the error that "data is out of bounds" which I should only receive if I enter a number less than 1 or greater than 99. Any assistance in getting this to work would be great. Thanks.

The following example "validates_exclusion_of" doesn't work either. Instead of not allowing anything like the previous example, it allows anything and doesn't exclude any numbers.

The author already detected this error p235
(see the errata before posting, if you can).

The problem is that you try to compare a string input with a numeric.
Your should write '1'..'99', not 1..99, in the test.

Cheers !

Demitton, thanks. I was the one who pointed out that error and they added it after. The other way to fix the problem is to change the type that the database record expects. Then you can use integers instead of strings.

Neither the book code nor the errata code works. The errata code never detects an error (using InstantRails 1.7 so there are no version issues). Any suggestions?

What works in Instant Rails 1.7 is

"1..99"

The '1'..'99' listed above does not work.