Problem extending ActiveRecord with custom validations

Rails
1

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?

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}$/i,
:message => “invalid”
end
end
def validates_email(*attr_names)
attr_names.each do |attr_name|
validates_format_of attr_name,
:with => /(^([^@\s]+)@((?:[-_a-z0-9]+.)+[a-z]{2,})$)|(^$)/
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 methodvalidates_email’ for #<Class:
0x31ac9c8> (NoMethodError)

2

On 9 Dec 2008, at 19:05, gaveeno wrote:

Have you tried requiring it from an initializer, not the bottom of
environment.rb ?

Fred

3

Thanks Fred, that worked! I created config/initializers/
custom_validations.rb and moved the require line there from the
environment.rb file. It’s not clear to me why this works, and it
seems like it’s overkill to create a new file for this, but as long as
it works it’s cool with me.

Thanks again.
-Gavin

On Dec 9, 11:09 am, Frederick C. [email protected]

4

On Dec 9, 7:17 pm, gaveeno [email protected] wrote:

Thanks Fred, that worked! I created config/initializers/
custom_validations.rb and moved the require line there from the
environment.rb file. It’s not clear to me why this works, and it

Short version: because it means the require will happen at the right
time.
Long version:

Fred

5

Thanks Fred, interesting blog post!

On Dec 9, 11:40 am, Frederick C. [email protected]