Models and validation problem

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1

In my model, I am attempting to correct some bad data rather than just
pass an error message back to the user. The problem is that my fix
seems to get the data past validation but it then puts the bad data into
the database rather than the new(and improved) data. If I pass in
web_site with the value of ‘www.test.com’, it will pass validation but
it won’t add http:// to the variable. Here is my model

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :post

validation checks

validates_presence_of :name, :comment

protected
def validate
web_site = ‘http://’ + web_site if web_site =~ /^www./i
errors.add(:web_site," - Please begin all web addresses with
http://") unless web_site.blank? || web_site =~ /^http:///i
end
end

2

charlie bowman wrote:

http://") unless web_site.blank? || web_site =~ /^http:///i
end
end

Use “self.web_site =” instead of “web_site =”. Why? Read:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/b0b54ca108fb589d

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3

I’m new to Ruby, and I still don’t understand the discussion in the
url you gave us… T_T

I’m planning the same model validation though, thanks in advance for the
info…

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Tirta K. Untario

4

Thanks!

5

Here’s the jist of it. When coding in your models, always preface a
variable with self., if that variable is an attribute of your model. If
you try to change the value of a attribute of your model without
referencing it with self, you will be creating a new local variable.
Hope this helps. Thanks Mark!

6

Huh? Now I’m even more confused. I thought that discussion was about the
potential confusion caused by Ruby’s algorithm
for deciding whether an identifier is a method or a variable. I thought
“self” was for attaching a method to the class.
Why would I prepend a variable with “self”… and wouldn’t I want my
model’s instance variables to be “@” variables?

b

7

Oh ok, now I got it ^^
I’m still confused with variable scopes in Ruby, I’ll try to dig more
on this subject.

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Tirta K. Untario
[email protected]

On 2/14/06, Charlie B. [email protected] wrote:

Here’s the jist of it. When coding in your models, always preface a
variable with self., if that variable is an attribute of your model. If you
try to change the value of a attribute of your model without referencing it
with self, you will be creating a new local variable. Hope this helps.
Thanks Mark!

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 01:22 +0700, Tirta K. Untario wrote:
I’m new to Ruby, and I still don’t understand the discussion in the
url you
gave us… T_T

I’m planning the same model validation though, thanks in

advance for the info…

–
Tirta K. Untario

On 2/12/06, Mark Reginald

web_site with the
unless web_site.blank? || web_site =~ /^http:///i
We develop, watch us RoR, in numbers too big to ignore.

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