Birthdate validation

Rails
1

Hello everyone,

I’m almost cracking my head trying to do this birthdate validation. It
turns out that I can only accept users with at least 18 years old and
I’m trying to validate it writing this code on my user.rb fil at app/
models

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_presence_of :full_name
validates_presence_of :street_address
validates_presence_of :city
validates_presence_of :state
validates_presence_of :country
validates_presence_of :zip_code
validates_numericality_of :zip_code, :message => “must contain only
numbers.”
validates_presence_of :phone
validates_numericality_of :phone, :message => “must contain only
numbers.”
validates_presence_of :email
validates_format_of :email, :with => /^([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+.)+[a-
z]{2,})$/i
validates_acceptance_of :policy_agreement, :message => “must be
accepted. You have to read and agree with the Aykall Policies before
signing in.”
validates_multiparameter_assignments :message => " is not a valid
date."
age_limit = Date.new(Date.today.year, Date.today.month,
Date.today.day).change(:year => Date.today.year - 18)
validates_numericality_of :birth_date, :less_than =>
age_limit, :message => “is invalid. You have to be at least 18 years
old to sign in.”
end

I’m getting the error message “undefined method `change’ for #<Date:
4908815/2,0,2299161>” but, honestly, I don’t know what else to try.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,
Thiago G.

2

On Nov 3, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Thiago G. wrote:

end
Have a look at this info here:

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3048

– gw

3

On 3 Nov 2007, at 17:59, Thiago G. wrote:

validates_numericality_of :birth_date, :less_than =>
age_limit, :message => “is invalid. You have to be at least 18 years
old to sign in.”
end

change only exists on time, not date. Regardless this won’t work
properly: the above is only evaluated when the code is first loaded,
so say you start up your app on the first of december 2007 it would
check that they’re born before 1st december 1989. A month later it
will check against that date of first of december.
I think you’d be far better off with a custom validation method.

Fred

4

Thanks man.

It worked with:

validates_multiparameter_assignments :message => " is not a valid
date."
validates_each :birth_date do |record, attr, value|
record.errors.add attr, “is not a valid date. You must be at
least 18 years old to sign in.” if value > Date.new((Date.today.year -
18),(Date.today.month),(Date.today.day))
end