hello all,
i’m trying to override the validator validates_exclusion_of to make it
case-insensitive:
module ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods
def validates_exclusion_of(*attr_names)
raise ‘hello world’
configuration = { :message =>
ActiveRecord::Errors.default_error_messages[:exclusion], :on
=> :save }
configuration.update(attr_names.pop) if attr_names.last.is_a?
(Hash)
enum = configuration[:in] || configuration[:within]
raise(ArgumentError, "An object with the method include? is
required must be supplied as the :in option of the configuration
hash") unless enum.respond_to?(“include?”)
# make the compare case-insensitive
validates_each(attr_names, configuration) do |record, attr_name,
value|
record.errors.add(attr_name, configuration[:message]) if
enum.include?(value.downcase)
end
end
end
the code is in lib/validations.rb
however when i run a unit test against it, i get the default validator
instead of seeing raise “hello world”
what am i doing wrong?
thanks,
jeff
jemminger wrote:
however when i run a unit test against it, i get the default validator
instead of seeing raise “hello world”
Active Record includes the validations module into the Base class.
So you have to write
class ActiveRecord::Base
def self.validates_exclusion_of(*attr_names)
[OMITTED]
end
end
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Active Record includes the validations module into the Base class.
So you have to write
class ActiveRecord::Base
def self.validates_exclusion_of(*attr_names)
[OMITTED]
end
end
thanks for your reply. this still does not work. i’ve made sure that
the file is being required in evironment.rb… out of curiosity, i
also tried changing the method name to self.validates_exclusion_of2,
and changed the reference in the model… i get a NoMethodError. i
know that the file is being read, since if i put a raise before the
method def i will get the raise.
any ideas?
actually there might be some strange problem just with this project…
i tried your suggestion in a new test project and it works properly.
jemminger wrote:
Ok, more information: we’re using observers in environment.rb. if we
comment out the line attaching the observers, all works properly.
could this be a bug?
Try putting the redefinition of the validator above the observer
declaration in environment.rb.
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no luck… the observers declaration is inside the
Rails::Initializer.run block. any attempt to require the custom
validations.rb before the end of that config block results in an error
“uninitialized constant ActiveRecord”
i’ll start digging through the rails source to see if i can find
anything…
Ok, more information: we’re using observers in environment.rb. if we
comment out the line attaching the observers, all works properly.
could this be a bug?
jemminger wrote:
no luck… the observers declaration is inside the
Rails::Initializer.run block. any attempt to require the custom
validations.rb before the end of that config block results in an error
“uninitialized constant ActiveRecord”
Try seting the observers at the bottom of environment.rb like
ActiveRecord::Base.observers = :observer1, …
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We develop, watch us RoR, in numbers too big to ignore.
Try seting the observers at the bottom of environment.rb like
ActiveRecord::Base.observers = :observer1, …
shoot, i thought that this one was gonna do it but no - this time the
validator worked properly but the observers don’t get called.
awesome… that works. thank you very much! maybe one day i’ll
understand or figure out why it didn’t include the other way.
jemminger wrote:
Try seting the observers at the bottom of environment.rb like
ActiveRecord::Base.observers = :observer1, …
shoot, i thought that this one was gonna do it but no - this time the
validator worked properly but the observers don’t get called.
If you’re in production, add “ActiveRecord::Base.instantiate_observers”.
Alternatively, if you turn your patch into a plugin (just put
your AR:B override in vendor/plugins//init.rb), that
will automatically be loaded just before the observers are set-up
in the initializer.
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