Why verify presence and uniqueness of an attribute that doesn't exist?

It was causing mysterious test fails, too.

app/models/blog_comment.rb

@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ class BlogComment < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   acts_as_indexed :fields => [:name, :email, :body]
 
-  validates_presence_of :title
-  validates_uniqueness_of :title
-
   named_scope :approved, :conditions => {:approved => true}
   named_scope :rejected, :conditions => {:approved => false}
 end