Rails - Oct 2009 - About custom validations

Hello,

I suppose this topic has been widely discussed, but i''ve not found
exactly what i need.

I thought validate_associations would in fact validate the associations
of my models, but it simply verifies that the fields of the object are
valid. So i need to create some custom validations to do

I found one solution:

[code]
validate :obj_must_exist

def obj_must_exist
  errors.add(:obj_id, "must point to an existing obj") if obj_id
&&
obj.nil?
end
[/code]

But now i need it in a helper or something like that, because i''ve to
reuse the same validation several times. I created a file in
config/initializers called validations.rb and put this:

ActiveRecord::Base.class_eval do
  def self.validates_object_exists(obj, obj_id)
    obj.errors.add(obj_id, "must point to an existing #{obj}") if
obj_id
|| obj.nil?
  end
end

But it''s just not working... So, what''s the "rails
way" to do that?

Thank you.
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Sergio Aristizabal
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I suppose this topic has been widely discussed, but i''ve not found
> exactly what i need.
>
> I thought validate_associations would in fact validate the associations
> of my models, but it simply verifies that the fields of the object are
> valid. So i need to create some custom validations to do
>
> I found one solution:
>
> [code]
> validate :obj_must_exist
>
> def obj_must_exist
>  errors.add(:obj_id, "must point to an existing obj") if obj_id
&&
> obj.nil?
> end
> [/code]
>
> But now i need it in a helper or something like that, because i''ve
to
> reuse the same validation several times. I created a file in
> config/initializers called validations.rb and put this:
>
> ActiveRecord::Base.class_eval do
>  def self.validates_object_exists(obj, obj_id)
>    obj.errors.add(obj_id, "must point to an existing #{obj}") if
obj_id
> || obj.nil?
>  end
> end
>
> But it''s just not working... So, what''s the "rails
way" to do that?
What is "just not working"?
What is exactly the given error?
Are you sure the file is getting loaded?
Have you tried explicitly loading it?


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