Rails - Jul 2005 - validates_presence_of interacts poorly with integer fields

#1309 <http://dev.rubyonrails.com/ticket/1309> changed  
validates_presence_of to use Object#blank? instead of  
Object#empty? .  I guess that''s fine for strings, but was this  
intended to apply to integer fields as well?

I have dozens of validations that check to make sure that some  
integer fields are present, and they all now fail when those fields  
are set to 0.  The trac ticket doesn''t suggest there was any intent  
to affect non-string fields.

Might I suggest that for non-strings, we revert to empty? in the  
validation?

cheers,
matt

It''s a known issue. I just talked to David about it a couple of days
ago. Will send a patch asap.