updateUniques() still making unique rules go through to save()

[IntellectProductions]

This is what my rules are in my model that is extending a package that extends Ardent:

public static $rules = array(
        'email'                 => 'required|unique:users|email|max:100',
        'password'              => 'sometimes|required|confirmed',
        'password_confirmation' => 'sometimes|required',
        'fname'                 => 'required|max:64',
        'lname'                 => 'required|max:64',
        'address'               => 'max:50',
        'city'                  => 'max:50',
        'state'                 => 'max:6',
        'zip'                   => 'max:6',
        'phone'                 => 'max:64'
    );

Then I have my method:

    /**
     * Update user information
     * @param columns       Array of input
     *
     */
    public function updateUser( array $columns, $id = null )
    {
        if(is_null($id))
            $id = \Auth::id();

        $user = User::find($id, array('email', 'fname', 'lname', 'email', 'address', 'city', 'state', 'zip', 'phone'));

        foreach( $columns as $column => $val )
        {
            $user->$column = $val;
        }

        if( $user->updateUniques() )
        {
            return true;
        }

        Session::set('error', $user->errors()->all());
        return false;
    }

But it's still saying email must be unique.. which makes no sense because updateUniques should ignore that shouldn't it?? In the uniqueExclusion method, it still spits this out:

string 'unique:users,email,,id' (length=22)

Which I would think that rule would get erased?

[IntellectProductions]

Well looks like you have to select the id when pulling a model object with updateUniques().. selecting the id with everything else I previously had did the trick. Might be good to note this.

[rginnow]

@IntellectProductions I believe I am having the same problem. Can you elaborate on what you meant? It looks like in your code you already were selecting the id of the user...