ActiveRecord/ActiveModel '#validate' alias for 'valid?'

It's unintuitive to call '#valid?' when you want to run validations but
don't care about the return value.

The alias in ActiveRecord isn't strictly necessary (the ActiveModel
alias is still in effect), but it clarifies.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/test/cases/validations_test.rb b/activerecord/test/cases/validations_test.rb
index de618902aa..d80da06e27 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/cases/validations_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/cases/validations_test.rb
@@ -52,6 +52,21 @@ class ValidationsTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
     assert r.save(:context => :special_case)
   end
 
+  def test_validate
+    r = WrongReply.new
+
+    r.validate
+    assert_empty r.errors[:author_name]
+
+    r.validate(:special_case)
+    assert_not_empty r.errors[:author_name]
+
+    r.author_name = "secret"
+
+    r.validate(:special_case)
+    assert_empty r.errors[:author_name]
+  end
+
   def test_invalid_record_exception
     assert_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid) { WrongReply.create! }
     assert_raise(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid) { WrongReply.new.save! }