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Hi, Is there a way of validating input inside the controller? or an equivalent to ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods.validates_presence_of ? Cheers, -- Colin

Hi, I am not sure if this is already answered in this list. I couldn''t find an answer. So I am posting the question. I have multiple validations for a field. For example: validates_presence_of :contact_email validates_format_of :contact_email, :with => /^([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})$/i, :message => "is not a valid email

Hi to Ruby and Rails group! I am new to the ROR . I ahev some doubts 1.Can we write the reguller expressions controller! 2.I have added the some controles in the rhtml file.(with out database fileds) I want to wirte the validations for these text fields in the model Is it Possible? Give me any reference? 3.In how many ways can we write the validations? Thanks and Regards, Kumar

ActiveRecord supports composed_of for value objects which is fantastic but one thing that it doesn''t seem to support (or at least I am unable to find any documentation for) validation of the value objects. For example, given the following: class Message < ActiveRecord::Base composed_of :sender, :class_name => ''EmailAddress'' composed_of :recipient,

I have a problem with ruby on rails validation total_book_toy.rhtml ================ <%= text_field ''book1'', ''title1'' %> <%= text_field ''book2'', ''title2'' %> I want to validate these text_field so user can''t insert same title. However, I was stuck how to do it. Or maybe you have another way how to do it.

i am trying to validate without saving use the valid? method on my object. however i keep getting the following error (that i reproduced in console) "NoMethodError for field" Any ideas ? thanks adam Loading development environment. >> p = Post.new => #<Post:0x407b6050 @attributes={"created_on"=>nil, "subcat"=>1, "cat"=>nil,

Hey All, I have a form that submits data to multiple models. I have class Man < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :notes has_many :contacts validates_associated :contacts, :notes validates_presence_of :first_name validates_presence_of :last_name class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :man validates_presence_of :contact_info class Note < ActiveRecord::Base

If I have belongs_to :user Do I need to have validates_presence_of :user_id ? Does Rails validate the presence of :user_id automatically if I have belongs_to :user? In other words, does Rails prevent against creating orphan records that belong to non-existent users? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have two problems. I have a comment that has_many uploads. Before saving the comment, I want to be sure that the upload(s) has passed validation, but I also need to validate in other ways. For example, I do not want to save the comment if there is no comment or upload. Or, I do not want to save the comment if the image has been uploaded previously (comparing md5s with past upload md5s

Starting to feel more confident and code is DRYing up nicely, but I''ve hit a brick wall here and hoping someone can help me. I''ve got a module, TrustRanking, which extends a number of model''s instance methods, and I want to extend their class methods too, but I can seem to work out how to do it. Simply including the module from the class works a treat for the

Good morning, I''ve been working on my first Rails app. I''m replacing an old Perl script that scrapes a bunch of data from an Oracle database, generates a bunch of charts then builds a static webpage with the charts. I''ve re-built it in Rails, with about 25% of the code it took to do in Perl and the users can now get dynamic charts instead of day old charts (or

I have a User model with an email attribute. I''m using the following validations: validates_confirmation_of :email validates_format_of :email, :with => RFC822::EmailAddress, :message => "must be a valid address in the form user@domain.com" validates_uniqueness_of :email, :message => "address has already been taken. If you''ve forgotten your

Hello people, I''d like to detect whether an attribute of a model has vaildates_presence_of applied to it so I can automatically apply a mandatory (*) to the field...it doesn''t look easy...any ideas? Cheers, -- Dan Webb http://www.danwebb.net

Hello all. I''ve got the following in my model: class Individual < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :first_name, :last_name, :street, :city, :state, :zip validates_acceptance_of :AZ_resident, :message => "You must be an Arizona resident." end The AZ_resident field is present and defined as boolean (PostgreSQL 8.1), but validation will not occur.

Considering an object with several has_many :through => associations, what is the ''best'' way to handle validations? As an example: class Student < ActiveRecord::Base # some attrbutes like # :name # :grade # relationships has_many :students_assignment, :dependent => :destroy has_many :assignments, :through => :students_assignment has_many

Hi fellow programmers, I was looking for how to keep integrity in some financial transactions and I saw this "This could even happen if you use transactions with the ‘serializable’ isolation level." in the uniqueness page http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Validations/ClassMethods.html#method-i-validates_uniqueness_of. How this is possible with the serializablo

I''ve got a user object which has quite a few attributes mapped to the database. As of right now I''ve got some validations in the model like: validates_presence_of :password, :message => "You must specify a valid password." validates_confirmation_of :password, :message => "Password doesn''t match the confirmation." validates_presence_of

Hello, Using shoulda, any ideas how to allow blank when having this test: should validate_uniqueness_of(:email) Thanks. -- J. Pablo Fernández <pupeno-GAtDADarczzQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> (http://pupeno.com) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

We are wondering how you''d validate a credit card number or a SSN without writing Javascript and Ruby code. Would it be through Rails'' AJAX support? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, Is there a way to invoke validations at times other than save, create and update? I know that I can do this by writing my own validation checks using errors.add_[blah], but I''d like to leverage the existing validation code. What I have is two sets of fields in a record, set A and set B. Both sets must be validated on record create. However, the trouble is that after