Rails - Mar 2006 - Valitation only on one page?

Hello there,

I have a "user" object essentially that contains address information 
that gets stored in the database. The user can sign up and go through 
the whole page before he needs to enter that information which is 
associated with a billing process. Without having to write some odd 
validation based on the request_uri and passing it to a custom 
validation method is there any way I can make the validates_presence_of 
only occur on the one billing action, and no where else such as account 
creation or account updates? Thanks ahead of time.

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On Mar 21, 2006, at 17:11, Bryan Corey wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I have a "user" object essentially that contains address
information
> that gets stored in the database. The user can sign up and go through
> the whole page before he needs to enter that information which is
> associated with a billing process. Without having to write some odd
> validation based on the request_uri and passing it to a custom
> validation method is there any way I can make the  
> validates_presence_of
> only occur on the one billing action, and no where else such as  
> account
> creation or account updates? Thanks ahead of time.
Just off the top of my head looks like a user does not require a  
billing address, and your model correctly reflects that.

The billing address is a model in its own and it is required for the  
*bill*. So I''d move that validates_presence_of to the Bill model. On  
the other hand the billing address belongs_to a user that has_one  
billing address. Then, it is the billing address who  
validates_presence_of :user. That matches your current flow.

Just some quick feedback that may be nonsense in the real application.

-- fxn