Rails - Apr 2007 - How does one validate a 'float' field?

I would like to validate the following conditions on a numeric field:

1) That the user did not enter a non-numeric string where he was
required to enter a number.
2) That the numeric value is zero or greater.

There seems to be a conflict between these two requirements:

If the user enters a non-numeric string (e.g "ABC"), by the time it
reaches the validation function within the ActiveRecord object, it has
already been marshalled into a numeric format. "ABC" will be converted
to zero. According to condition #2, this is an acceptable value.
According to condition #1, it is not.

Is there anyway I can execute the validation methods on the raw string
values, before they are "casted" into the ActiveRecord types?
Otherwise, can you suggest an elegant solution for this problem?

Thanks!

Shimon Amit


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unknown wrote:
> I would like to validate the following conditions on a numeric field:
> 
> 1) That the user did not enter a non-numeric string where he was
> required to enter a number.
> 2) That the numeric value is zero or greater.
> 
> There seems to be a conflict between these two requirements:
> 
> If the user enters a non-numeric string (e.g "ABC"), by the time
it
> reaches the validation function within the ActiveRecord object, it has
> already been marshalled into a numeric format. "ABC" will be
converted
> to zero. According to condition #2, this is an acceptable value.
> According to condition #1, it is not.
> 
> Is there anyway I can execute the validation methods on the raw string
> values, before they are "casted" into the ActiveRecord types?
> Otherwise, can you suggest an elegant solution for this problem?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Shimon Amit
Look through

  http://ar.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html

for before_type_cast

But maybe you are really looking for  validates_numericality_of

Stephan

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Thank you. That is exactly what I was looking for.

Shimon Amit

On Apr 25, 7:36 pm, Stephan Wehner
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> unknown wrote:
> > I would like to validate the following conditions on a numeric field:
>
> > 1) That the user did not enter a non-numeric string where he was
> > required to enter a number.
> > 2) That the numeric value is zero or greater.
>
> > There seems to be a conflict between these two requirements:
>
> > If the user enters a non-numeric string (e.g "ABC"), by the
time it
> > reaches the validation function within the ActiveRecord object, it has
> > already been marshalled into a numeric format. "ABC" will be
converted
> > to zero. According to condition #2, this is an acceptable value.
> > According to condition #1, it is not.
>
> > Is there anyway I can execute the validation methods on the raw string
> > values, before they are "casted" into the ActiveRecord
types?
> > Otherwise, can you suggest an elegant solution for this problem?
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Shimon Amit
>
> Look through
>
>  http://ar.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html
>
> for before_type_cast
>
> But maybe you are really looking for  validates_numericality_of
>
> Stephan
>
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