".save"只在数据库中插入空值

我正在尝试为一家医院提出RoR申请，以便该医院拥有患者，医生，办公室等.

I'm trying to make a RoR application for a Hospital so it has patients, doctors, offices, etc.

我遇到的问题是，在患者注册"时，我无法将新患者保存在数据库中.实际上，尽管我已经检查了属性是否正确(这只是一个名称和一个个人ID)，但是一旦执行了该方法，则在数据库中只会出现一个带有< null>"的新行，而不是实际的属性价值观.方法如下:

The problem I'm having is that, at the patient "Sign-up", I'm not able to save the new patient in the database. In fact, despite I've checked that the attributes are ok (It's just a name and a personal ID), once the method is excecuted, in the database only appears a new row with "<null>" instead of the actual attribute values. Here's the method:

def pat_create

  pName = params[:name].to_s
  id    = params[:pid].to_s.to_i

  pat = Patient.where(:pID => id).first
  if pat == nil
    pat = Patient.new(:name => pName, :pID =>id)
    pat.save
  end

end

此外，这是它构造的查询:

Also, This is the query that it constructs:

INSERT INTO `patients` (`created_at`, `name`, `pID`, `updated_at`) VALUES ('2013-05-20 02:04:28', NULL, NULL, '2013-05-20 02:04:28')

在其他视图收集以下形式的:name和:pid信息后，将调用此方法:

This method is called after some other view collects the :name and :pid information in this form:

<%= form_tag('/page/pat_create') do %> 
  <%= text_field_tag :name, nil%> 
  <%= text_field_tag :pid, nil%> 
  <%= button_tag(type: "submit", class: "btn btn-success") do %> 
    Register<i class="icon-white icon-plus"></i> 
  <%end%> 
<%end%>

不用说，pat.errors.empty?是真实的，pat.save也是如此.

Needless to say, pat.errors.empty? is true, and so is pat.save.

知道为什么会这样吗?

这里的患者模型:

class Patient < ActiveRecord::Base

  attr_accessible :name, :pID
  attr_accessor :name, :pID

  has_many :appointments
  validates_presence_of :name
  validates :name, :format => {:with=> /^[a-zA-Z\s\D]+$/}
  validates_presence_of :pID
  validates_numericality_of :pID
  validates_inclusion_of :pID, :in => 100000..9999999999   

end