On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 20:43, Peter Vandenabeele <pe...@vandenabeele.com>wrote:
> 2011/9/17 J. Pablo Fernández <pup...@pupeno.com> > >> Hello, >> >> Every now and then, I use a web app and it tells me that this or that >> field is invalid. Generally it's an email address that doesn't accept a plus >> before the @, or a phone number that doesn't accept well formated >> international phone numbers (starting with a plus, containing hyphens) or >> maybe it fails to deal with my name or last name which contain this terrible >> characters: é and á. Of course, the developed failed here. >> >> Generally I try to have my validations be much better about it, but I'm >> sure that I'm not inmune to the issue of rejecting valid data. What concerns >> me is that, unlike exceptions, for which I get an email, I'll never know >> about this issues unless a user tells me, and they rarely do. >> >> So, I was thinking, wouldn't it be nice if Rails automatically saved the >> attributes of an object to the database when the validations fail? I suppose >> a gem could do it by monkey-patching validate or something like that and I'm >> also sure I'm not the first one to think of this. >> >> Does anybody know if that gem already exists? If not, I'll give it a try. >> What do you think about this feature? Does it sound useful? >> > > > http://addons.heroku.com/tripwire > > "... Have you ever filled out a form only to have it rejected because of an > unexpected, overly-restrictive validation error? It's frustrating and > annoying, and it probably happens to your users too. > > Tripwire shows you the validation errors your users are experiencing, > giving you a new way to uncover UX issues in your app. ..." > > Seems pretty much what you asked for. > Indeed it does. I don't get it why it's a Heroku addon and not just a simple plain gem. -- J. Pablo Fernández <pup...@pupeno.com> (http://pupeno.com) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
