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diff --git a/guides/source/active_record_validations.md b/guides/source/active_record_validations.md
index 0df52a655f..cb459626d5 100644
--- a/guides/source/active_record_validations.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_record_validations.md
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ end
We can see how it works by looking at some `rails console` output:
```ruby
-$ rails console
+$ bin/rails console
>> p = Person.new(name: "John Doe")
=> #<Person id: nil, name: "John Doe", created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>
>> p.new_record?
@@ -175,28 +175,28 @@ class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
end
>> p = Person.new
-#=> #<Person id: nil, name: nil>
+# => #<Person id: nil, name: nil>
>> p.errors.messages
-#=> {}
+# => {}
>> p.valid?
-#=> false
+# => false
>> p.errors.messages
-#=> {name:["can't be blank"]}
+# => {name:["can't be blank"]}
>> p = Person.create
-#=> #<Person id: nil, name: nil>
+# => #<Person id: nil, name: nil>
>> p.errors.messages
-#=> {name:["can't be blank"]}
+# => {name:["can't be blank"]}
>> p.save
-#=> false
+# => false
>> p.save!
-#=> ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Name can't be blank
+# => ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Name can't be blank
>> Person.create!
-#=> ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Name can't be blank
+# => ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Name can't be blank
```
`invalid?` is simply the inverse of `valid?`. It triggers your validations,
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ set. In fact, this set can be any enumerable object.
```ruby
class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
validates :subdomain, exclusion: { in: %w(www us ca jp),
- message: "Subdomain %{value} is reserved." }
+ message: "%{value} is reserved." }
end
```
@@ -575,7 +575,9 @@ This helper validates that the attribute's value is unique right before the
object gets saved. It does not create a uniqueness constraint in the database,
so it may happen that two different database connections create two records
with the same value for a column that you intend to be unique. To avoid that,
-you must create a unique index in your database.
+you must create a unique index on both columns in your database. See
+[the MySQL manual](http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/multiple-column-indexes.html)
+for more details about multiple column indexes.
```ruby
class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
@@ -616,10 +618,6 @@ The default error message is _"has already been taken"_.
This helper passes the record to a separate class for validation.
```ruby
-class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
- validates_with GoodnessValidator
-end
-
class GoodnessValidator < ActiveModel::Validator
def validate(record)
if record.first_name == "Evil"
@@ -627,6 +625,10 @@ class GoodnessValidator < ActiveModel::Validator
end
end
end
+
+class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
+ validates_with GoodnessValidator
+end
```
NOTE: Errors added to `record.errors[:base]` relate to the state of the record
@@ -644,10 +646,6 @@ Like all other validations, `validates_with` takes the `:if`, `:unless` and
validator class as `options`:
```ruby
-class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
- validates_with GoodnessValidator, fields: [:first_name, :last_name]
-end
-
class GoodnessValidator < ActiveModel::Validator
def validate(record)
if options[:fields].any?{|field| record.send(field) == "Evil" }
@@ -655,6 +653,10 @@ class GoodnessValidator < ActiveModel::Validator
end
end
end
+
+class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
+ validates_with GoodnessValidator, fields: [:first_name, :last_name]
+end
```
Note that the validator will be initialized *only once* for the whole application
@@ -1127,15 +1129,15 @@ generating a scaffold, Rails will put some ERB into the `_form.html.erb` that
it generates that displays the full list of errors on that model.
Assuming we have a model that's been saved in an instance variable named
-`@post`, it looks like this:
+`@article`, it looks like this:
```ruby
-<% if @post.errors.any? %>
+<% if @article.errors.any? %>
<div id="error_explanation">
- <h2><%= pluralize(@post.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this post from being saved:</h2>
+ <h2><%= pluralize(@article.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this article from being saved:</h2>
<ul>
- <% @post.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
+ <% @article.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
<li><%= msg %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
@@ -1149,7 +1151,7 @@ the entry.
```
<div class="field_with_errors">
- <input id="post_title" name="post[title]" size="30" type="text" value="">
+ <input id="article_title" name="article[title]" size="30" type="text" value="">
</div>
```