Validation not working

Rails
1

HI,
I am new to ruby. I am developing small application in ROR. Following is
code for my rHtml , Controller & Model. PLease see it & let me know why
data in form is not get validated & also how to check for whether data i
have entered in form (username) is present in database or not? (Like
Login form).
following is my code:-
—index.rhtml--------
<%= start_form_tag(:action => “login”)%>
<%=text_field(“user”, “name”, “size” => 20)%>
<%=password_field(“user”, “password”, “size” => 20)%>
<%= submit_tag %>
<%= end_form_tag %>

-----users_controller.rb-----------------
def login
@user = User.new(params[:user])
redirect_to :action => ‘list’
end

def new
@user = User.new
end

------user.rb----------------------------
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_presence_of :name
end

In Above Form I want when user enters “name” field blank ihn form it
should give error message of validation.

Thanks in advance.
Prash

2

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 05:44 +0100, Prashant T. wrote:

<%=password_field(“user”, “password”, “size” => 20)%>
@user = User.new

I don’t see any problem there…that looks good. If there’s a problem
(and you didn’t say there is), the problem is likely how you handle
errors in your controller…

and of course, I don’t know what new.rhtml looks like.

Craig

3

The problem is that you haven’t asked if it is valid:

def login
@user = User.new(params[:user])
if @user.valid?
redirect_to :action => ‘list’
return # cuz you can only redirect once per action
else
flash[:error] = ‘something bad happened’
render :action => ‘index’
end
end

My (untested) code is dismal because neither code path displays a
natural
template (which would be new.rhtml) relying on redirects or renders
instead.
Consider using a before_filter to do your login as described nicely in
AWDWR.

If you’d like to see some straightforward Rails code, do a
‘script/generate
scaffold MyTable’ and you’ll see how the paradigm works with new/create
and
edit/update.

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