similar to: validates_presence_of *_id attributes

Thanks for the input Blair Zajac and Chris (Nolan and Hall), and for others. If all of you have time, please follow this (the question still relates to the previous posts by me): I have provided full steps to reproduce the symptoms. If it matters, I''m running Ruby 1.8.2, Rails 1.0, and MySQL 5.0.15 on Windows XP Professional. 1. First, the setup MySQL ----- create database testdb;

Category.has_many :products Let''s say a product must belong to a category. I know it is recommended to do the following: class Product validates_presence_of :category_id end But, as we all know, this is a pain for new records, meaning what if the associated category is a new record? I''ve been meaning to ask this, but what''s wrong with doing the following: class

Hi, I''m struggling to get the validates_associated to work as I think it should be. I''m using: JRuby 1.1 rails-2.0.2 activerecord-2.0.2 activerecord-jdbc-adapter-0.8.2 My tables in MySQL: CREATE TABLE area_codes ( id INT UNSIGNED auto_increment primary key ... ); CREATE TABLE markets ( id INT UNSIGNED auto_increment primary key, ... ); CREATE TABLE

What''s the better thing to do in a before_save if you don''t want the save to continue? raise an exception, or do an errors.add or both? Thanks, Chris Nolan.ca http://kweschun.com/ - Do you have a Kweschun?

I''ve managed to consistently crash firefox 1.5 (mac) using script.aculo.us. Is this a known issue? The page in question works in Safari enough. It happens on a link_to_remote where I''m :updating the same div that I''m currently in. Would it help if I try to isolate the code? Would it be more a firefox bug, or a JS bug? i.e. do we think we can fix the

Hello people, I''d like to detect whether an attribute of a model has vaildates_presence_of applied to it so I can automatically apply a mandatory (*) to the field...it doesn''t look easy...any ideas? Cheers, -- Dan Webb http://www.danwebb.net

Hi, having a few problems working out whats kicking off, im using validates_presence_of :title in a models class this seemed to work fine untill I used a custom new.rhtml error message I am gaining is NoMethodError in Recipe#create Showing app/views/recipe/new.rhtml where line #15 raised: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array.

Regarding validates_associated... Let''s say I have: article belongs_to author But for whatever reason, I want an article to also be written anonymously and therefore not require an author. Then I have: Article: belongs_to :author validates_associated :author But I DON''T have validates_presence_of. What I want to do is validate that an author is valid --if it is

Hello, I have a form that submits data to two related models/tables. One is Customer the other is Address. Validation for Customer works fine but not for the Address. Class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :address validates_presence_of :login, :password, :email validates_associated :address end Class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :customer validates_presence_of

If I have belongs_to :user Do I need to have validates_presence_of :user_id ? Does Rails validate the presence of :user_id automatically if I have belongs_to :user? In other words, does Rails prevent against creating orphan records that belong to non-existent users? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Here is my model: class Account < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :users, :dependent => :destroy has_many :bus belongs_to :currency has_many :mylogs, :dependent => :destroy has_many :batchuserdefines, :dependent => :destroy has_many :materialuserdefines, :dependent => :destroy has_many :materials has_many :inventories has_many :batchs has_many :courses has_many

This works : class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category end But (when I add validation) this does not work : class Recipe < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :category validates_length_of :category, :within => 6..20 validates_uniqueness_of :category, :message => "already exists" end thank you -- View this message in context:

Howdy, I''m a Rails beginner working on my first significant project with RoR. I''m trying to figure out how to validate a foreign key (you know, make sure the row actually exists.) However, validates_associated doesn''t seem to be what I want to use, nor does it work... -- BEGIN -- class City < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :schools belongs_to :state

Hi, I think I''m missing some fundamental information here so hopefully someone can help me. I have a model Club which has many members, members of course belong to a Club. I''d like to ensure that when a members is saved (saved/created/updated) only valid club_id''s are accepted. I have a Club model (simplified) like this: class Club < ActiveRecord::Base

Hi all, For various reasons I need to have foreign keys with not null constraints. Eg: create_table :people do |t| t.column :name, :string t.column :household_id, :integer, :null => false end create_table :households do |t| t.column :name, :string end add_foreign_key_constraint :people, :household_id, :households, :id So the people table has a foreign key into

Hello all I''m having an issue with ruby on rails, and it not throwing an error where it should. I have a class ''clientpool'' that is: class Clientpool < ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name "clientpool" set_primary_key "id" belongs_to :clients, :foreign_key => "cliname" validates_presence_of :cliname validates_associated :client end

I am trying to set up a validation in a model to ensure that a record can''t be saved unless the foreign key it belongs_to is a valid record. My model says: class Admin < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :user_id validates_numericality_of :user_id validates_uniqueness_of :user_id validates_associated :user belongs_to :user end but I can still create an admin

I want to use mocks and stubs to test the controller, but am having trouble getting my validation not to trigger. Here''s the code: # spec: Image.stub!(:find).and_return(@image) @image.should_receive(:save!).once.with(:any_args) put :update, :id => @image.id, :category_id => @category.id, :image => {:name => ''test'', :image_number =>

Here is the setup: Windows XP, InstantRails, MySQL 14.7, Ruby 1.8.4, Rails 1.1.2 MODEL: class Office<ActiveRecord::Base has_many :users end class User<ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :office validates_presence_of :office_id validates_associated :office <....other stuff...> end UNIT_TEST test/unit/user_test.rb def test_associations u = User.new u.office_id =

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