# Changing user settings results in 422 Unprocessable Entity / ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-user-settings-results-in-422-unprocessable-entity-activerecord-recordinvalid/36722>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [December 14, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-user-settings-results-in-422-unprocessable-entity-activerecord-recordinvalid/36722 "2015-12-14T23:56:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-user-settings-results-in-422-unprocessable-entity-activerecord-recordinvalid/36722/5 "2015-12-15T02:44:13Z")

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Search through the user table to see if any users exist with usernames outside of your allowed bounds.

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