Rails - Jul 2010 - How to update user model attributes and bypass a presence_of validation?

Hello, I have a user model which stores a users name, email, and password.

I have a separate profile controller which lets the user edit his name,
email, and password from the user model.

I want the user to be able to update his name separately from his email as
well as change his password separately from when he changes his name or
email.

So on my profile edit page I have 3 forms. One for editing his name, one for
his email, then a third form to enter in his current password, what he wants
his new password to be, then a confirmation of that password.

My problem is that he can''t edit just his name, when I submit the name
form
the password validation kicks in and won''t let me submit.

Can anyone give me some tips on how I could accomplish this please? Thank
you.

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Validations usually have an :if/:unless option. That might be helpful.
You could, for example, condition the password and e-mail values to
validate only if the name is present.

On Jul 19, 2:33 pm, Andrew Perkins
<andrewp...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hello, I have a user model which stores a users name, email, and password.
>
> I have a separate profile controller which lets the user edit his name,
> email, and password from the user model.
>
> I want the user to be able to update his name separately from his email as
> well as change his password separately from when he changes his name or
> email.
>
> So on my profile edit page I have 3 forms. One for editing his name, one
for
> his email, then a third form to enter in his current password, what he
wants
> his new password to be, then a confirmation of that password.
>
> My problem is that he can''t edit just his name, when I submit the
name form
> the password validation kicks in and won''t let me submit.
>
> Can anyone give me some tips on how I could accomplish this please? Thank
> you.
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There is also the :on option for validations.  With combining :on
with :if you could essentially set up several validations that are
triggered by the specific pages.

One validation to ensure presence_of :name, :email and :password :on
=> :create
One validation to ensure presence_of :name :on => :update, :if
=> :email_and_password_are_not_being_updated
One validation to ensure presence_of :email :on => :update, :if
=> :name_and_password_are_not_being_updated
One validation to ensure presence_of :password :on => :update, :if
=> :email_and_name_are_not_being_updated

You would have to write the methods for each :if option to inspect the
attribute updates being sent by the form and other validations might
be necessary if you have another page to allow edits for all three
attributes.

Hope this helps.

Bob

On Jul 19, 2:33 pm, Andrew Perkins
<andrewp...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hello, I have a user model which stores a users name, email, and password.
>
> I have a separate profile controller which lets the user edit his name,
> email, and password from the user model.
>
> I want the user to be able to update his name separately from his email as
> well as change his password separately from when he changes his name or
> email.
>
> So on my profile edit page I have 3 forms. One for editing his name, one
for
> his email, then a third form to enter in his current password, what he
wants
> his new password to be, then a confirmation of that password.
>
> My problem is that he can''t edit just his name, when I submit the
name form
> the password validation kicks in and won''t let me submit.
>
> Can anyone give me some tips on how I could accomplish this please? Thank
> you.
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Thank you both Pepe and Bob. I appreciate it.

Andrew

On Jul 20, 1:22 pm, Bob <rpell...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> There is also the :on option for validations.  With combining :on
> with :if you could essentially set up several validations that are
> triggered by the specific pages.
>
> One validation to ensure presence_of :name, :email and :password :on
> => :create
> One validation to ensure presence_of :name :on => :update, :if
> => :email_and_password_are_not_being_updated
> One validation to ensure presence_of :email :on => :update, :if
> => :name_and_password_are_not_being_updated
> One validation to ensure presence_of :password :on => :update, :if
> => :email_and_name_are_not_being_updated
>
> You would have to write the methods for each :if option to inspect the
> attribute updates being sent by the form and other validations might
> be necessary if you have another page to allow edits for all three
> attributes.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Bob
>
> On Jul 19, 2:33 pm, Andrew Perkins
<andrewp...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello, I have a user model which stores a users name, email, and
password.
>
> > I have a separate profile controller which lets the user edit his
name,
> > email, and password from the user model.
>
> > I want the user to be able to update his name separately from his
email as
> > well as change his password separately from when he changes his name
or
> > email.
>
> > So on my profile edit page I have 3 forms. One for editing his name,
one for
> > his email, then a third form to enter in his current password, what he
wants
> > his new password to be, then a confirmation of that password.
>
> > My problem is that he can''t edit just his name, when I submit
the name form
> > the password validation kicks in and won''t let me submit.
>
> > Can anyone give me some tips on how I could accomplish this please?
Thank
> > you.
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why not just use "update_attribute" ?
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