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authorVijay Dev <vijaydev.cse@gmail.com>2012-01-26 00:00:40 +0530
committerVijay Dev <vijaydev.cse@gmail.com>2012-01-26 00:00:40 +0530
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Merge branch 'master' of github.com:lifo/docrails
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-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/3_2_release_notes.textile2
-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile33
-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/active_resource_basics.textile2
-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile4
-rw-r--r--railties/guides/source/i18n.textile6
5 files changed, 28 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/3_2_release_notes.textile b/railties/guides/source/3_2_release_notes.textile
index 74bc757948..d669a7fdfa 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/3_2_release_notes.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/3_2_release_notes.textile
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ h4. Sprockets
h3. Active Record
-* Boolean columns with 'on' and 'ON' values are type casted to true.
+* Boolean columns with 'on' and 'ON' values are type cast to true.
* When the +timestamps+ method creates the +created_at+ and +updated_at+ columns, it makes them non-nullable by default.
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile
index a27c292a4c..15d24f9ac1 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ As shown in the example, you can also combine standard validations with your own
h4. Custom Methods
-You can also create methods that verify the state of your models and add messages to the +errors+ collection when they are invalid. You must then register these methods by using one or more of the +validate+, +validate_on_create+ or +validate_on_update+ class methods, passing in the symbols for the validation methods' names.
+You can also create methods that verify the state of your models and add messages to the +errors+ collection when they are invalid. You must then register these methods by using the +validate+ class method, passing in the symbols for the validation methods' names.
You can pass more than one symbol for each class method and the respective validations will be run in the same order as they were registered.
@@ -637,12 +637,24 @@ class Invoice < ActiveRecord::Base
end
</ruby>
+By default such validations will run every time you call +valid?+. It is also possible to control when to run these custom validations by giving an +:on+ option to the +validate+ method, with either: +:create+ or +:update+.
+
+<ruby>
+class Invoice < ActiveRecord::Base
+ validate :active_customer, :on => :create
+
+ def active_customer
+ errors.add(:customer_id, "is not active") unless customer.active?
+ end
+end
+</ruby>
+
You can even create your own validation helpers and reuse them in several different models. For example, an application that manages surveys may find it useful to express that a certain field corresponds to a set of choices:
<ruby>
ActiveRecord::Base.class_eval do
def self.validates_as_choice(attr_name, n, options={})
- validates attr_name, :inclusion => { {:in => 1..n}.merge(options) }
+ validates attr_name, :inclusion => { { :in => 1..n }.merge!(options) }
end
end
</ruby>
@@ -659,7 +671,7 @@ h3. Working with Validation Errors
In addition to the +valid?+ and +invalid?+ methods covered earlier, Rails provides a number of methods for working with the +errors+ collection and inquiring about the validity of objects.
-The following is a list of the most commonly used methods. Please refer to the +ActiveRecord::Errors+ documentation for a list of all the available methods.
+The following is a list of the most commonly used methods. Please refer to the +ActiveModel::Errors+ documentation for a list of all the available methods.
h4(#working_with_validation_errors-errors). +errors+
@@ -889,13 +901,8 @@ Below is a simple example where we change the Rails behavior to always display t
<ruby>
ActionView::Base.field_error_proc = Proc.new do |html_tag, instance|
- if instance.error_message.kind_of?(Array)
- %(#{html_tag}<span class="validation-error">&nbsp;
- #{instance.error_message.join(',')}</span>).html_safe
- else
- %(#{html_tag}<span class="validation-error">&nbsp;
- #{instance.error_message}</span>).html_safe
- end
+ errors = Array(instance.error_message).join(',')
+ %(#{html_tag}<span class="validation-error">&nbsp;#{errors}</span>).html_safe
end
</ruby>
@@ -949,6 +956,7 @@ h4. Creating an Object
* +before_validation+
* +after_validation+
* +before_save+
+* +around_save+
* +before_create+
* +around_create+
* +after_create+
@@ -959,6 +967,7 @@ h4. Updating an Object
* +before_validation+
* +after_validation+
* +before_save+
+* +around_save+
* +before_update+
* +around_update+
* +after_update+
@@ -967,8 +976,8 @@ h4. Updating an Object
h4. Destroying an Object
* +before_destroy+
-* +after_destroy+
* +around_destroy+
+* +after_destroy+
WARNING. +after_save+ runs both on create and update, but always _after_ the more specific callbacks +after_create+ and +after_update+, no matter the order in which the macro calls were executed.
@@ -1013,7 +1022,7 @@ The following methods trigger callbacks:
* +increment!+
* +save+
* +save!+
-* +save(false)+
+* +save(:validate => false)+
* +toggle!+
* +update+
* +update_attribute+
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_resource_basics.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_resource_basics.textile
index 851aac1a3f..37abb8a640 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/active_resource_basics.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/active_resource_basics.textile
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ person.destroy
h3. Validations
-Module to support validation and errors with Active Resource objects. The module overrides Base#save to rescue ActiveResource::ResourceInvalid exceptions and parse the errors returned in the web service response. The module also adds an errors collection that mimics the interface of the errors provided by ActiveRecord::Errors.
+Module to support validation and errors with Active Resource objects. The module overrides Base#save to rescue ActiveResource::ResourceInvalid exceptions and parse the errors returned in the web service response. The module also adds an errors collection that mimics the interface of the errors provided by ActiveModel::Errors.
h4. Validating client side resources by overriding validation methods in base class
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile
index c77bc93cfb..bed14ef6a8 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ below:
</erb>
Now when you refresh the +/posts+ page, you'll see a gray background to the
-page. This same gray background will be used throughout all the views for posts.
+page. This same gray background will be used throughout all the views.
h4. Creating New Posts
@@ -1668,7 +1668,7 @@ right in the form where you create the post. First, create a new model to hold
the tags:
<shell>
-$ rails generate model tag name:string post:references
+$ rails generate model Tag name:string post:references
</shell>
Again, run the migration to create the database table:
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile b/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile
index 16ad35f345..25201888e7 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/i18n.textile
@@ -819,13 +819,13 @@ h5. Action View Helper Methods
* The +number_to_currency+, +number_with_precision+, +number_to_percentage+, +number_with_delimiter+, and +number_to_human_size+ helpers use the number format settings located in the "number":https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actionpack/lib/action_view/locale/en.yml#L2 scope.
-h5. Active Record Methods
+h5. Active Model Methods
* +model_name.human+ and +human_attribute_name+ use translations for model names and attribute names if available in the "activerecord.models":https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/locale/en.yml#L29 scope. They also support translations for inherited class names (e.g. for use with STI) as explained above in "Error message scopes".
-* +ActiveRecord::Errors#generate_message+ (which is used by Active Record validations but may also be used manually) uses +model_name.human+ and +human_attribute_name+ (see above). It also translates the error message and supports translations for inherited class names as explained above in "Error message scopes".
+* +ActiveModel::Errors#generate_message+ (which is used by Active Model validations but may also be used manually) uses +model_name.human+ and +human_attribute_name+ (see above). It also translates the error message and supports translations for inherited class names as explained above in "Error message scopes".
-* +ActiveRecord::Errors#full_messages+ prepends the attribute name to the error message using a separator that will be looked up from "activerecord.errors.format.separator":https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actionpack/lib/action_view/locale/en.yml#L91 (and which defaults to +'&nbsp;'+).
+* +ActiveModel::Errors#full_messages+ prepends the attribute name to the error message using a separator that will be looked up from "errors.format":https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activemodel/lib/active_model/locale/en.yml#L4 (and which defaults to +"%{attribute} %{message}"+).
h5. Active Support Methods