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authorCassioMarques <cassiommc@gmail.com>2009-01-08 21:00:16 -0200
committerCassioMarques <cassiommc@gmail.com>2009-01-08 21:00:16 -0200
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Moved validates_each to the last position of it's section. Added VIM swap files to .gitignore
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@@ -221,8 +221,6 @@ ul#navMain {
<li><a href="#_the_tt_validates_confirmation_of_tt_helper">The <tt>validates_confirmation_of</tt> helper</a></li>
- <li><a href="#_the_tt_validates_each_tt_helper">The <tt>validates_each</tt> helper</a></li>
-
<li><a href="#_the_tt_validates_exclusion_of_tt_helper">The <tt>validates_exclusion_of</tt> helper</a></li>
<li><a href="#_the_tt_validates_format_of_tt_helper">The <tt>validates_format_of</tt> helper</a></li>
@@ -237,6 +235,8 @@ ul#navMain {
<li><a href="#_the_tt_validates_uniqueness_of_tt_helper">The <tt>validates_uniqueness_of</tt> helper</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#_the_tt_validates_each_tt_helper">The <tt>validates_each</tt> helper</a></li>
+
</ul>
</li>
<li>
@@ -504,20 +504,7 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
validates_presence_of <span style="color: #990000">:</span>email_confirmation
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The default error message for <tt>validates_confirmation_of</tt> is "<em>doesn&#8217;t match confirmation</em>"</p></div>
-<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_each_tt_helper">3.4. The <tt>validates_each</tt> helper</h3>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>This helper validates attributes against a block. It doesn&#8217;t have a predefined validation function. You should create one using a block, and every attribute passed to <tt>validates_each</tt> will be tested against it. In the following example, we don&#8217;t want names and surnames to begin with lower case.</p></div>
-<div class="listingblock">
-<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
-by Lorenzo Bettini
-http://www.lorenzobettini.it
-http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
-<pre><tt><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">class</span></span> Person <span style="color: #990000">&lt;</span> ActiveRecord<span style="color: #990000">::</span>Base
- validates_each <span style="color: #990000">:</span>name<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>surname <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>model<span style="color: #990000">,</span> attr<span style="color: #990000">,</span> value<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
- model<span style="color: #990000">.</span>errors<span style="color: #990000">.</span>add<span style="color: #990000">(</span>attr<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'Must start with upper case'</span><span style="color: #990000">)</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">if</span></span> value <span style="color: #990000">=~</span> <span style="color: #FF6600">/^[a-z]/</span>
- <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span>
-<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span></tt></pre></div></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>The block receives the model, the attribute&#8217;s name and the attribute&#8217;s value. If your validation fails, you can add an error message to the model, therefore making it invalid.</p></div>
-<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_exclusion_of_tt_helper">3.5. The <tt>validates_exclusion_of</tt> helper</h3>
+<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_exclusion_of_tt_helper">3.4. The <tt>validates_exclusion_of</tt> helper</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This helper validates that the attributes' values are not included in a given set. In fact, this set can be any enumerable object.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
@@ -530,7 +517,7 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <tt>validates_exclusion_of</tt> helper has an option <tt>:in</tt> that receives the set of values that will not be accepted for the validated attributes. The <tt>:in</tt> option has an alias called <tt>:within</tt> that you can use for the same purpose, if you&#8217;d like to. In the previous example we used the <tt>:message</tt> option to show how we can personalize it with the current attribute&#8217;s value, through the <tt>%s</tt> format mask.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The default error message for <tt>validates_exclusion_of</tt> is "<em>is not included in the list</em>".</p></div>
-<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_format_of_tt_helper">3.6. The <tt>validates_format_of</tt> helper</h3>
+<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_format_of_tt_helper">3.5. The <tt>validates_format_of</tt> helper</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This helper validates the attributes&#8217;s values by testing if they match a given pattern. This pattern must be specified using a Ruby regular expression, which must be passed through the <tt>:with</tt> option.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
@@ -542,7 +529,7 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
<span style="color: #990000">:</span>message <span style="color: #990000">=&gt;</span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"Only letters allowed"</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The default error message for <tt>validates_format_of</tt> is "<em>is invalid</em>".</p></div>
-<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_inclusion_of_tt_helper">3.7. The <tt>validates_inclusion_of</tt> helper</h3>
+<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_inclusion_of_tt_helper">3.6. The <tt>validates_inclusion_of</tt> helper</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This helper validates that the attributes' values are included in a given set. In fact, this set can be any enumerable object.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
@@ -555,7 +542,7 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <tt>validates_inclusion_of</tt> helper has an option <tt>:in</tt> that receives the set of values that will be accepted. The <tt>:in</tt> option has an alias called <tt>:within</tt> that you can use for the same purpose, if you&#8217;d like to. In the previous example we used the <tt>:message</tt> option to show how we can personalize it with the current attribute&#8217;s value, through the <tt>%s</tt> format mask.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The default error message for <tt>validates_inclusion_of</tt> is "<em>is not included in the list</em>".</p></div>
-<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_length_of_tt_helper">3.8. The <tt>validates_length_of</tt> helper</h3>
+<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_length_of_tt_helper">3.7. The <tt>validates_length_of</tt> helper</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This helper validates the length of your attribute&#8217;s value. It can receive a variety of different options, so you can specify length contraints in different ways.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
@@ -601,7 +588,7 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
validates_length_of <span style="color: #990000">:</span>bio<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>too_long <span style="color: #990000">=&gt;</span> <span style="color: #FF0000">"you're writing too much. %d characters is the maximum allowed."</span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This helper has an alias called <tt>validates_size_of</tt>, it&#8217;s the same helper with a different name. You can use it if you&#8217;d like to.</p></div>
-<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_numericality_of_tt_helper">3.9. The <tt>validates_numericality_of</tt> helper</h3>
+<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_numericality_of_tt_helper">3.8. The <tt>validates_numericality_of</tt> helper</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This helper validates that your attributes have only numeric values. By default, it will match an optional sign followed by a integral or floating point number. Using the <tt>:integer_only</tt> option set to true, you can specify that only integral numbers are allowed.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If you use <tt>:integer_only</tt> set to <tt>true</tt>, then it will use the <tt>/\A[+\-]?\d+\Z/+ regular expression to validate the attribute&#8217;s value. Otherwise, it will try to convert the value using +Kernel.Float</tt>.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
@@ -614,7 +601,7 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
validates_numericality_of <span style="color: #990000">:</span>games_played<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>integer_only <span style="color: #990000">=&gt;</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">true</span></span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The default error message for <tt>validates_numericality_of</tt> is "<em>is not a number</em>".</p></div>
-<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_presence_of_tt_helper">3.10. The <tt>validates_presence_of</tt> helper</h3>
+<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_presence_of_tt_helper">3.9. The <tt>validates_presence_of</tt> helper</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This helper validates that the attributes are not empty. It uses the <tt>blank?</tt> method to check if the value is either <tt>nil</tt> or an empty string (if the string has only spaces, it will still be considered empty).</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
@@ -646,11 +633,11 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
<td class="icon">
<img src="./images/icons/note.png" alt="Note" />
</td>
-<td class="content">If you want to validate the presence of a boolean field (where the real values are true and false), you will want to use validates_inclusion_of :field_name, :in =&gt; [true, false] This is due to the way Object#blank? handles boolean values. false.blank? # =&gt; true</td>
+<td class="content">If you want to validate the presence of a boolean field (where the real values are true and false), you will want to use validates_inclusion_of :field_name, :in &#8658; [true, false] This is due to the way Object#blank? handles boolean values. false.blank? # &#8658; true</td>
</tr></table>
</div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The default error message for <tt>validates_presence_of</tt> is "<em>can&#8217;t be empty</em>".</p></div>
-<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_uniqueness_of_tt_helper">3.11. The <tt>validates_uniqueness_of</tt> helper</h3>
+<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_uniqueness_of_tt_helper">3.10. The <tt>validates_uniqueness_of</tt> helper</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This helper validates that the attribute&#8217;s value is unique right before the object gets saved. It does not create a uniqueness constraint directly into your database, so it may happen that two different database connections create two records with the same value for a column that you wish were unique. To avoid that, you must create an unique index in your database.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
@@ -681,6 +668,19 @@ http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
validates_uniqueness_of <span style="color: #990000">:</span>name<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>case_sensitive <span style="color: #990000">=&gt;</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">false</span></span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span></tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The default error message for <tt>validates_uniqueness_of</tt> is "<em>has already been taken</em>".</p></div>
+<h3 id="_the_tt_validates_each_tt_helper">3.11. The <tt>validates_each</tt> helper</h3>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This helper validates attributes against a block. It doesn&#8217;t have a predefined validation function. You should create one using a block, and every attribute passed to <tt>validates_each</tt> will be tested against it. In the following example, we don&#8217;t want names and surnames to begin with lower case.</p></div>
+<div class="listingblock">
+<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight 2.9
+by Lorenzo Bettini
+http://www.lorenzobettini.it
+http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
+<pre><tt><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">class</span></span> Person <span style="color: #990000">&lt;</span> ActiveRecord<span style="color: #990000">::</span>Base
+ validates_each <span style="color: #990000">:</span>name<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #990000">:</span>surname <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">do</span></span> <span style="color: #990000">|</span>model<span style="color: #990000">,</span> attr<span style="color: #990000">,</span> value<span style="color: #990000">|</span>
+ model<span style="color: #990000">.</span>errors<span style="color: #990000">.</span>add<span style="color: #990000">(</span>attr<span style="color: #990000">,</span> <span style="color: #FF0000">'Must start with upper case'</span><span style="color: #990000">)</span> <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">if</span></span> value <span style="color: #990000">=~</span> <span style="color: #FF6600">/^[a-z]/</span>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span>
+<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #0000FF">end</span></span></tt></pre></div></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The block receives the model, the attribute&#8217;s name and the attribute&#8217;s value. If your validation fails, you can add an error message to the model, therefore making it invalid.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_common_validation_options">4. Common validation options</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">