Obtain the stored values of a modified Rails model object

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Published on 2010-03-20T18:15:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 18:21 UTC
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Is there a way to obtain the stored value, that is, the one in the database once the instance has been modified?

The problem I'm trying to solve is get the stored slug of an object that failed to save to be able to regenerate the URL.

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