I''ve been working on extending AR validations with some custom
methods with the goals to:
a) reduce the bulk the standard syntax can result in
b) avoid having to write and read regex for common white-listed
character sets
c) allow some UTF-8 characters
d) provide a mechanism for making dynamic error messages
I''ve written a detailed article how I did it, and I''ve posted
the
source I generated to be used or just looked at as an example. Thanks
to everyone that answered the questions that got me to this point.
http://www.railsdev.ws/blog/11/custom-validations-in-rails/
I reduced this application code (which does not allow for UTF-8 chars):
validates_format_of
:userFltrName,
:with => /^[a-zA-Z0-9\_\-\ ]*?$/,
:message => ''accepts only letters, 0-9, underscore, hyphen, and
space''
validates_format_of
:userFltrTable,
:with => /^[a-zA-Z0-9\_]*?$/,
:message => ''accepts only letters, 0-9, and underscore''
validates_format_of
:userFltrField,
:with => /^[a-zA-Z0-9\_]*?$/,
:message => ''accepts only letters, 0-9, and underscore''
validates_inclusion_of
:userFltrOp,
:in => %w{eq bw ew cn lte lt gte gt btw},
:message => ''has a value other than the valid options
below''
down to the following replacement (which does allow UTF-8 chars):
validates_as_alpha_numeric_separator :userFltrName
validates_as_alpha_numeric_underscore :userFltrTable, :userFltrField
validates_as_value_list :userFltrOp, :in => %w{eq bw
ew cn lte lt gte gt btw}
So far, I have validators for:
validates_as_person_name
validates_as_business_name
validates_as_street_address
validates_as_alpha
validates_as_alpha_space
validates_as_alpha_hyphen
validates_as_alpha_underscore
validates_as_alpha_symbol
validates_as_alpha_separator
validates_as_alpha_numeric
validates_as_alpha_numeric_space
validates_as_alpha_numeric_hyphen
validates_as_alpha_numeric_underscore
validates_as_alpha_numeric_symbol
validates_as_alpha_numeric_separator
validates_as_numeric
validates_as_decimal
validates_as_positive_decimal
validates_as_integer
validates_as_positive_integer
validates_as_email
validates_as_value_list
--
def gw
acts_as_n00b
writes_at(www.railsdev.ws)
end
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