I have several ActiveRecord models that contain email addresses and I’d
like to be able to DRY up the validation for them so I only have to put
the appropriate regex in one place. Currently each model has its own
“validates_format_of” with the same regex provided for the appropriate
email field.
Some options:
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One option is to use composed_of - would this work for me? I’d need
to compose each email field as an EmailAddress model object in my
various models. -
Alternatively, there seems to be an opportunity here for declaring
validations that span models - either by naming them, or pointing to a
method somewhere, etc.
Then I could just say “validates_format_of by using this code that I’m
referencing” in my model objects.
Thoughts?
Wes