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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb')
| -rwxr-xr-x | activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb index 3b8ffe4e06..79e009a413 100755 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb @@ -383,9 +383,12 @@ module ActiveRecord # <%= password_field "person", "password" %> # <%= password_field "person", "password_confirmation" %> # - # The person has to already have a password attribute (a column in the people table), but the password_confirmation is virtual. - # It exists only as an in-memory variable for validating the password. This check is performed only if password_confirmation - # is not nil and by default on save. + # The added +password_confirmation+ attribute is virtual; it exists only as an in-memory attribute for validating the password. + # To achieve this, the validation adds acccessors to the model for the confirmation attribute. NOTE: This check is performed + # only if +password_confirmation+ is not nil, and by default only on save. To require confirmation, make sure to add a presence + # check for the confirmation attribute: + # + # validates_presence_of :password_confirmation, :if => :password_changed? # # Configuration options: # * <tt>message</tt> - A custom error message (default is: "doesn't match confirmation") |