update() and save() methods result in "no matching method/function" in railo - coldfusion

Question

I'm trying to run a very quick update query to record that a user's email address is confirmed (setting the confirmed [bit] column in my users table to 1 after they click a link sent via email). Here's the action that should do it:
<cffunction name="confirmEmail">
<cfscript>
user = model("user").findOne(where="id=#params.userid# AND uuid='#params.uuid#'", returnAs="query");
if(user.recordCount) {
pageTitle = "E-mail Confirmation Success";
user.update(confirmed=1);
} else {
redirectTo(route="authenticationDenied", alert="Something was wrong with your confirmation string. Please contact site administrators.");
}
</cfscript>
</cffunction>
But when I submit the appropriate URL (I've dumped and can see the model call finds one valid record), I get the following error in Railo 3.3.x:
No matching Method/Function [update] for call with named arguments found
...highlighting the user.update(confirmed=1); line in my code. So what am I doing wrong? Previously I have always used save/update(params.user) or thereabouts for these queries, but that seems like overkill here; I just want to pass a 1-bit update.

Answer 1

Okay, my CTO who is new to CFML and Wheels figured this out in like 5 seconds. Hence the "C" I guess.
By returning the user model as a query instead of an object, I didn't have access to the update/save() methods. (Duh, MVC n00b.) The reason I was returning it as a query was simply that I've been doing that a fair bit in order to have easy manipulation of output, and in this case so that I can test for the existence of a record the way I always have (if recordCount). But this works...
<cffunction name="confirmEmail">
<cfscript>
user = model("user").findOne(where="id=#params.userid# AND uuid='#params.uuid#'");
if(isObject(user)) {
user.update(confirmed="1");
} else {
flashInsert(error="Something was wrong with your confirmation string. Please contact site administrators.");
redirectTo(route="authenticationDenied");
}
</cfscript>
</cffunction>