upgraded to rails 3.2.8 and added user registration validations

Gemfile

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 source 'http://rubygems.org'
 
-gem 'rails', '3.2.7'
+gem 'rails', '3.2.8'
 
 # gem "will_paginate", :git => "https://github.com/p7r/will_paginate.git", :branch => "rails3"
 gem "will_paginate"

Gemfile.lock

@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
 GEM
   remote: http://rubygems.org/
   specs:
-    actionmailer (3.2.7)
-      actionpack (= 3.2.7)
+    actionmailer (3.2.8)
+      actionpack (= 3.2.8)
       mail (~> 2.4.4)
-    actionpack (3.2.7)
-      activemodel (= 3.2.7)
-      activesupport (= 3.2.7)
+    actionpack (3.2.8)
+      activemodel (= 3.2.8)
+      activesupport (= 3.2.8)
       builder (~> 3.0.0)
       erubis (~> 2.7.0)
       journey (~> 1.0.4)
       rack (~> 1.4.0)
       rack-cache (~> 1.2)
       rack-test (~> 0.6.1)
       sprockets (~> 2.1.3)
-    activemodel (3.2.7)
-      activesupport (= 3.2.7)
+    activemodel (3.2.8)
+      activesupport (= 3.2.8)
       builder (~> 3.0.0)
-    activerecord (3.2.7)
-      activemodel (= 3.2.7)
-      activesupport (= 3.2.7)
+    activerecord (3.2.8)
+      activemodel (= 3.2.8)
+      activesupport (= 3.2.8)
       arel (~> 3.0.2)
       tzinfo (~> 0.3.29)
-    activeresource (3.2.7)
-      activemodel (= 3.2.7)
-      activesupport (= 3.2.7)
-    activesupport (3.2.7)
+    activeresource (3.2.8)
+      activemodel (= 3.2.8)
+      activesupport (= 3.2.8)
+    activesupport (3.2.8)
       i18n (~> 0.6)
       multi_json (~> 1.0)
     arel (3.0.2)
@@ -42,19 +42,19 @@ GEM
     event-calendar (2.3.3)
     execjs (1.4.0)
       multi_json (~> 1.0)
-    faraday (0.8.1)
+    faraday (0.8.4)
       multipart-post (~> 1.1)
     gravatar_image_tag (1.0.0.pre2)
     hashie (1.2.0)
     hike (1.2.1)
     httpauth (0.1)
     i18n (0.6.0)
     journey (1.0.4)
-    jquery-rails (2.0.2)
-      railties (>= 3.2.0, < 5.0)
+    jquery-rails (2.1.1)
+      railties (>= 3.1.0, < 5.0)
       thor (~> 0.14)
     jquery_mobile-rails (1.1.0)
-    json (1.7.4)
+    json (1.7.5)
     jwt (0.1.5)
       multi_json (>= 1.0)
     mail (2.4.4)
@@ -95,17 +95,17 @@ GEM
       rack
     rack-test (0.6.1)
       rack (>= 1.0)
-    rails (3.2.7)
-      actionmailer (= 3.2.7)
-      actionpack (= 3.2.7)
-      activerecord (= 3.2.7)
-      activeresource (= 3.2.7)
-      activesupport (= 3.2.7)
+    rails (3.2.8)
+      actionmailer (= 3.2.8)
+      actionpack (= 3.2.8)
+      activerecord (= 3.2.8)
+      activeresource (= 3.2.8)
+      activesupport (= 3.2.8)
       bundler (~> 1.0)
-      railties (= 3.2.7)
-    railties (3.2.7)
-      actionpack (= 3.2.7)
-      activesupport (= 3.2.7)
+      railties (= 3.2.8)
+    railties (3.2.8)
+      actionpack (= 3.2.8)
+      activesupport (= 3.2.8)
       rack-ssl (~> 1.3.2)
       rake (>= 0.8.7)
       rdoc (~> 3.4)
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ GEM
       json (~> 1.4)
     rest-client (1.6.7)
       mime-types (>= 1.16)
-    sass (3.1.20)
+    sass (3.2.1)
     sass-rails (3.2.5)
       railties (~> 3.2.0)
       sass (>= 3.1.10)
@@ -125,14 +125,14 @@ GEM
       hike (~> 1.2)
       rack (~> 1.0)
       tilt (~> 1.1, != 1.3.0)
-    thor (0.15.4)
+    thor (0.16.0)
     tilt (1.3.3)
     tinymce-rails (3.5.6)
       railties (>= 3.1.1)
     treetop (1.4.10)
       polyglot
       polyglot (>= 0.3.1)
-    twitter (3.4.1)
+    twitter (3.6.0)
       faraday (~> 0.8)
       multi_json (~> 1.3)
       simple_oauth (~> 0.1.6)
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   omniauth-facebook
   omniauth-twitter
   pg
-  rails (= 3.2.7)
+  rails (= 3.2.8)
   rest-client
   sass-rails
   tinymce-rails

app/controllers/users_controller.rb

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ def create
     if @council
       @user.council_id = @council.id
     else
-      @newcouncil = Council.find(params[:user][:council_id])
+      @newcouncil = Council.find(params[:user][:council_id]) rescue nil
       if @newcouncil.nil?
         @newcouncil = Council.new
         @newcouncil.councilnumber = params[:user][:council_id]

app/models/user.rb

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_secure_password
   # validates_uniqueness_of :username, :on => :create  
   validates :username, :presence =>true,
-                      :uniqueness=>true, :on => :create 
+                      :uniqueness=>true, :on => :create
+  validates_format_of :username, :with => /^[A-Za-z\d_]+$/,
+                      :message => "can only contain letters and numbers (no spaces)."                      
   validates :fullname, :presence =>true,
                       :uniqueness=>true, :on => :create 
   validates :email, :presence =>true,