On 9 Dec 2008, at 19:05, gaveeno wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem extending ActiveRecord with custom validations
> based on the "Write Custom Validations" recipe from Advanced Rails
> Recipes. As far as I can tell, I've followed the instructions exactly
> but for some reason this isn't working and it's driving me crazy.
> I've tried making the methods in the custom validations module class
> methods (self.validates...) as well as the way they are below (which
> is the way they are in the instructions).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
Have you tried requiring it from an initializer, not the bottom of
environment.rb ?
Fred
> Thanks!
> Gavin
>
> ***
> lib/custom_validations.rb
>
> module CustomValidations
> def validates_phone(*attr_names)
> attr_names.each do |attr_name|
> validates_format_of attr_name,
> :with => /^[\(\)0-9\- \+\.]{10,20} *[extension\.]{0,9} *
> [0-9]{0,5}$/i,
> :message => "invalid"
> end
> end
> def validates_email(*attr_names)
> attr_names.each do |attr_name|
> validates_format_of attr_name,
> :with => /(^([EMAIL
> PROTECTED])@((?:[-_a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})$)|(^$)/
> i,
> :message => "invalid"
> end
> end
> end
> ActiveRecord::Base.extend(CustomValidations)
>
> ***
> config/environment.rb
>
> # Be sure to restart your server when you modify this file
>
> # Uncomment below to force Rails into production mode when
> # you don't control web/app server and can't set it the proper way
> ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'
>
> #normal environment.rb stuff
>
> end
>
> require 'custom_validations'
>
> ***
> models/user.rb
>
> class User < ActiveRecord::Base
> validates_email :email
> end
>
> ***
> error from console when starting server
>
> /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb:1667:in
> `method_missing': undefined method `validates_email' for #<Class:
> 0x31ac9c8> (NoMethodError)
>
> >
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