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

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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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