Re: Help with rails validates

Curtis Ovard
Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:59:55 -0000

I actually figured this out. Looged at the debug console on my app and
noticed that with the extended_license_type it was passing a
''0'' back since
none of the check boxes were checked. My validates only checks for the
presence of that field and ''0'' is something so that is what it
was.

On Thursday, January 3, 2013 8:52:08 AM UTC-7, Curtis Ovard
wrote:
>
> I have a question on rails validates. I need to validate that one field is
> filled out if another field has a certain value. The code is below, but if
> license has extended selected then the extended license type needs to be
> filled in. I have this but it isn''t working, when I fill the form
out and
> select extended and don''t check anything for
extended_license_type, it
> validates fine and I get no error message.
>
>   validates :license, presence: true
>   validates :extended_license_type, presence: true, :if =>
> :license_extended?
>
> private
>     def license_extended?
>       license == ''extended''
>     end
>

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