Find the bug, Rails edition

I have this code in a model in a Rails project.

  validates :name, presence: true, on: :create
  validates :email, presence: true, format: { with: URI::MailTo::EMAIL_REGEXP }, on: create

Let's put it in an Author model:

class Author < ApplicationRecord
  validates :name, presence: true, on: create
  validates :email, presence: true, format: { with: URI::MailTo::EMAIL_REGEXP }, on: create
end

When retrieving a list of all of the authors without email addresses (because, well, we are cleaning up these things) with this line of code:

  authors = Author.where(:email: nil)

... two new blank authors are created at the WHERE query. Both of their names and emails are blank. This is absurd!

Find the bug.

I narrowed the problem down to those validates lines, but could not see the bug. After an hour of puzzling, I asked Katherine to look. When she said, "what the?" I felt a little bit better that this was something weird.

She figured it out, though.

class Author < ApplicationRecord
  validates :name, presence: true, on: :create
  validates :email, presence: true, format: { with: URI::MailTo::EMAIL_REGEXP }, on: :create
end

F'ing symbols. Yay for Katherine's second set of eyes! Whoo!