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I''m building a login system, and I want users to be able to update their password, first name and last name after signing up. So, when signing up password can''t be nil, and it must be between 6..20 characters long. However, on update, the user can choose to leave the password field empty (but fill in other stuff, like first name) and then I want the User model to not update

...39; has_and_belongs_to_many :categories, :join_table => ''company_to_category'', :foreign_key => ''company_id'', :association_foreign_key => ''category_id'' validates_presence_of :name validates_uniqueness_of :name validates_lenght_of :name, :maximum => "20" ,:message => "too long" end The presence_of and the uniqueness_of work fine, but it doesn''t throw any error when the name atribute is longer than 20.. Is there any problem with it? Can I combine validate rules however I want to, or...

Hi, Correct me if I am wrong but there doesn''t seem to be an easy way to add validation outside the pre-built ones (validates_presence_of, validates_lenght_of, etc.). Ideally there should be something like: Class Person < ActiveRecord::Base validates :my_method, :on => create, :message => ''was not valid'' def my_method(param) false unless param ... true end end

I need validates_lenght_of validates lenght of UTF-8 strings and not just byte counting. Is there easier way than create my own validation method just validates_jlenght_of? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.