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In the model I have: validates :square_meters_public_land, :barrier_meters, :numericality => { :greater_than_or_equal_to => 0 }, :allow_nil => true but if, in the field, on create, I don''t insert a value I have the error "field is not a number". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To

I have this in a model: class GenreBadge < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :game, counter_cache: :genre_badges_count, touch: true belongs_to :genre validates :game_id, uniqueness: {scope: :genre_id}, allow_blank: true end When I get one existing genre badge genre_badge = game.genre_badges.first genre_badge.game_id = nil genre_badge.save! It creates an validation exception:

i have a model with this: file_column :image validates_file_format_of :image, :in => ["gif", "png", "jpg"] If inthe form the user not insert the image i receive an error. If i remove: validates_file_format_of :image, :in => ["gif", "png", "jpg"] it works. Is possible do the validation only when user insert the image in form? i

Hello, I''m trying to cut down the errors if the guy already getting the empty nickname, so he doesn''t get anything about the nickname is short. validates_presence_of :nickname This below is not working ? validates_length_of :nickname, :within => 4..40, :if => Proc.new { |user| user.nickname.length > 1 } nor this one below? validates_length_of :nickname, :within

Hello, I''m having some trouble with forms, my app allows to enter data by using a multi-step form that has 7 steps. There are 3 steps that may let the user to add 1 form, for example there''s a step called "children" and that children has the following fields: * name * age * gender but one father may have more than 1 child and I''m adding another form with

I think I must be doing something wrong... when a form returns params to the controller, empty fields appear to be returned as blank, not nil. so what''s the point of an :allow_nil=>true setting on a validation? it fails because blank is not the same as nil. i would expect either returned empty fields to be nil, or :allow_nil to really be :allow_blank. otherwise i have to do a search

Hello guys, I''m trying to validate the input of an integer from a form, here is a bit of code: This is the definition of the offending column in the migration: t.column :position, :integer, :default => 0, :limit => 3, :null => false And here is how I try to validate it inside de model: validates_length_of :position, :within => 1..3 And this is the exception I get when I

Hello, I need to have this for :create and :login how do I do so validates_presence_of :login, :password, :password_confirmation, :user_name, :email, :on => :create I do need it to be off in a number of places though -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

The code that comes with the plugin uses a method that looks like this: def password_required? crypted_password.blank? or not password.blank? end with validations that look like this: validates_presence_of :password, :if => :password_required? validates_presence_of :password_confirmation, :if => :password_required? validates_length_of

HI, I want to grab some information about university names, and I found this term called "web scraping" I search about it in google, and there are tools in ruby. One of them is nokogiri but I''m a bit confused because it seems that it only gets information that its already in an html or xml I found a webpage that have a list of university names as a <select>

hello, i am writing a simple user login system. when registering a user account, i have two field: password password_confirmation which are validated using validates_presence_of validates_confirmation_of and these are then used to generate a password hash which is stored in my database when i want to update the record (without changing the password and entering new values for password and

I have a user model and a status model. Each user has a specific status (accepted, rejected, declined, etc). I have a form that allows the adminstrator to change certain options for a user, including their status. I''m using a drop down menu populated with the different status values, and a default option that says "Choose a new status" with a value of "". I want to

Is there a way to use validates_numericality_of and still allow null values? I have a model with some optional values that can be nil, but if they''re present, they must be numbers. Will I need to construct a custom valiation for this, or is there some method built in? Seems like it would be a common enough need. Jeff -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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

Here''s the issue: When I submit a form for updating, @person.update_attributes doesn''t work. But the next nested clause for updating images DOES work. How is that possible? However no matter what I do the Person object will not change its attributes. def edit @person = Person.find(params[:id]) if request.post? @person.update_attributes(params[:person])

I have a site with an acts_as_authenticated based login which has started throwing up some strange errors. Until a few days ago everything worked fine but all of a sudden ''RecordNotSaved'' errors are popping up in my logs. When I check the database, it looks like the record _is_ saved but I think users get an error so I''m starting to see a lot of double/triple entries

Hi Guys, So basically I want a contact form to appear on all the service pages. I''ve already created a contact form for the contact page which works perfectly using this tutorial: http://matharvard.ca/posts/2011/aug/22/contact-form-in-rails-3/ Now I would like to implement this approach on the service pages, and it works until I push the Submit button, when I get the following error:

It appears that if your trying to use validates_inclusion_of for a string value allow_nil wont work. For example, if I have an attribute :year which is stored as a varchar then: validates_inclusion_of :year, :in => "1980"..Time.now.year.to_s, allow_nil=>true will successfully validate the range but will not allow an empty input field to be submitted. However, if :year is

I''m using accepts_nested_attributes as follows: class Timesheet < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :status, :user_id, :start_date, :end_date, :activities_attributes has_many :activities, dependent: :destroy has_many :time_entries, through: :activities accepts_nested_attributes_for :activities, allow_destroy: true end class Activity < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible

Hi, there. I have two validations in the model: validates_numericality_of :value, :only_integer=>true, :allow_blank=>true validates_size_of :value, :is=>9, :message=>"must be 5-digit number", :if=>Proc.new{|u| u.value.is_a?(Numeric)} They work as expected except when the :value is character/string like "a" "abc", the second validation will also output