similar to: validates_format_of :phone,

In a model I have following validates_format_of. Is there an easy way to DRY this up? It seems to be rather repetitive. validates_format_of :expiration_date, :with => /^[0-9]{4}[-][0-9]{2}[-][0-9]{2}$/ validates_format_of :activation_date, :with => /^[0-9]{4}[-][0-9]{2}[-][0-9]{2}$/ validates_format_of :some_other_date, :with =>

I''ve noticed that validates_format_of will return invalid if the field is nil. Question 1) How should we declare a validation that will validate it with a regex if it is set, but, if the field is not set, just move on Question 2) Why is it done this way? The other validators are only invoked if the field is set . If you want to declare the field mandatory, you add a

Hi all, I''ve got a form which accepts a "price" field and I''m attempting to validate it and allow some flexibility in the way the user enters it. It''s a numeric field but I want the user to be able to enter dollar signs and commas naturally in the data entry. I''m trying to understand how to use validates_format_of, and I''m not sure what

I need a validates_format_of that disallow dots. In the api there is nothing to find about how validates_format_of exatly works. Is there a better documentation or is there something that can tell me howto disallow dots. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

I''m using validates_format_of and the validation I want to do works, but I can''t get an error message to be displayed if the data is invalid: validates_format_of :mobile, :with => /\A[\+0-9]+\Z/, :message => " - Wrong" I have another validation some where else that does display the error message: " - Name is too long" validates_length_of :name,

Hello, I try this : validates_format_of :name , :with => /^[A-z0-9_.- ]*$/ , :message => "bad characters" for accept any name with chars "A" to "z" , "0" to "9" , with "_" "." "-" and " " The pattern is really simple but I have this error : SyntaxError in Login#register

Greetings, How to write Example which will check if model''s variable''s format is valid using :on => :create, like this: class User < ActiveRecord::Base ... validates_format_of :email, :with => /.../, :on => :create ... Using following code is not right: it "should ..." do @user = users(:example_user) @user.email =

Hi there, I''ve got the following in my model: validates_format_of :postcode, :with => /^([a-zA-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{1,2} [0-9]{1}[a-zA-Z]{2})$/, :message => "is not valid", :if => :postcode ... but it''s not working - it always insists on validation, even if postcode is empty. Basically, the postcode field is optional, but if it''s filled in, I want to

I have these sql code in postgresql "SELECT * from convenios where id NOT IN (SELECT convenio_id from solicituds where usuario_id=?" but don''t find a way of used it in rails except find_by_sql. There is a another way?? class Usuario < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :persona has_many :solicituds, :dependent => :destroy has_many :convenios, :through =>

Railsters: ActiveRecord''s validation system puts other database systems to shame. However, the newbies might not know how to write a regexp that excludes a match, instead of tests for it. Understand - I''m just asking this question to help them. I have been using Regexps since ''grep'' on Xenix! But the newbies here might not know how to do this:

Been manually testing file column with success except it seems to upload the file before validating it. Also .pdf files (which shouldn''t even validate) crash WEBrick. What am I missing to solve these problems? (apart from a brain!) validates_presence_of :title, :file validates_format_of :file, :with => %r{.(gif|jpg|png)$}i, :message => "File must end with .jpg, .gif or

I tried using the iLBC codec, and whlie I like it, I ran into a strange issue. I did a few searches on Google and haven't found anyone with the same issue as this. Anyhow, I was using a Plantronics analog headset and box plugged into a Digium TDM card, dialed out over my VoIP provider's IAX channel to the PSTN. I was in a conference call which is running on an Avaya PBX (which

Hi, Here is my situation : I have installed Samba 2.0.6 on my computer, which is running with Linux RedHat 6.0. When somebody tries to connect to this server, he's got a 'refused connection' message after he tried to my_IP@:139. I don't think the smb.conf is responsible because we have tried with the basic one, and it doesn't change anything. As I'm fresh in Linux (and

Hi all, I''m hoping to stir the Rails pot a little bit here, so please go easy with me ;-) Regular Expressions is the most densely inhumane language construct ever invented in any ''civilisation'', and the fact that we still have to dirty our minds with this in Rails is something that (sh/c)ould ideally be corrected in Rails (preferably before the release of 1.2

Can someone tell me why this returns ''dob is invalid'' when dob is ''01/01/1969''? validates_format_of :dob, :with => /[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{2}.[0-9] {4}/, :message => ''is invalid'' I''m trying to validate a date entred into a form. I suppose there are different ways to accomplish this, and because it doesn''t work, I''m

Often I need to do a one-off validation before Rails has had a chance to convert. For example, a date. Is there a general mechanism to cause validations to run on the raw input or do I have to resort to: private def validate unless attributes_before_type_cast[''date_of_loss''] =~ /^(\d+(-|\/)){2}\d{4}/ errors.add(''date_of_loss'', ''use the

What''s the best way to check a field to ensure it is a valid datetime? I could validates_format_of :with a regular expression for "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss", but I''m wondering if there is a more direct way to do this. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, i''m quite new with Ruby and i''ve been headbreaking quite a while on the following question. So I hope somebody can help this Noob on Rails. I want to use validates_format_of on the password a user enters for his or her account. I want it to check on the following: 1.. The password has to have a minimum of 2 non-capitalized characters. with the characters i mean: a

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font size="+1">Hi, <br> <br> Is there a way to make