Laravel 5 form request on update

Question

I don't understand why this doesn't work, i have searched the forums and read the official documentation, obviously I'm making a silly mistake:

public function rules()
{
    $customer = Customer::find($this->customers);
    return [
        'data.name'       => 'required|unique:customers,name,1'
    ];
}

That is a CustomerUpdateFormRequest that i created, i manually typed the customer id which is 1 in the rule, also with: 'data.name' => 'required|unique:customers,name,'.$customer->id,

The problem is that it still doesnt pass the unique validation, i giving me the Customer already exists error even after manually or dynamically type the customer id.

I read this http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/validation and https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/requests/laravel-5-validation-request-how-to-handle-validation-on-update and I 'Believe' that my code is correct, why is not working?

Answer 1

The code above is working just fine, no syntax errors or logic, the problem was in the database, there was another customer with the same data inserted i guess before the validation form was created.

I dont know if i should delete this question or leave it here, anyway the code its fine if u have any problems like mine PLEASE CHECK YOUR DB.

Thanks!

Answer 2

public function rules()
{

    $customer= $this->route('customer'); //$this->('route-name')

    return [
        'data.name'       => 'required|unique:customers,name,' . $customer->id
    ];
}