# Validates acceptance of question **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 3, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/validates-acceptance-of-question/154693 "2008-12-03T01:12:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/validates-acceptance-of-question/154693/1 "2008-12-03T01:12:54Z")
I have a terms of service agreement attached to a checkbox. It seems to work ok and I see “agreement”=\>“0” when the box is not checked in the development log and “agreement”=\>“1” when the box is checked in the log. But in the model I this validation: validates\_acceptance\_of :agreement, :message =\> “Please accept the terms to proceed” So when the form is actually filled out, no matter whether the box is checked or not I get: 1 error prohibited this agent from being saved There were problems with the following fields: -Agreement, Please accept the terms to proceed So what am I missing to get this to work? ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/validates-acceptance-of-question/154693/2 "2008-12-03T04:27:45Z")
> There were problems with the following fields: > > -Agreement, Please accept the terms to proceed > > So what am I missing to get this to work? is :agreement a field in your database? if so the docs say… :accept - Specifies value that is considered accepted. The default value is a string “1”, which makes it easy to relate to an HTML checkbox. This should be set to true if you are validating a database column, since the attribute is typecast from “1” to true before validation. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/validates-acceptance-of-question/154693/3 "2008-12-03T07:06:50Z")
Yes, :agreement is a field in my database. Should I remove it? In any case I did set the :accept =\> “true”, but it didn’t change anything. I get the same error when I submit the form whether or not the box is checked. The html shows: Am I reading this right that after the checkbox value is set to “1” that then there is a hidden value that is setting it to “0”? Is this supposed to be this way? ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/validates-acceptance-of-question/154693/4 "2008-12-03T18:37:15Z")
On Dec 2, 2008, at 10:05 PM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > Yes, :agreement is a field in my database. Should I remove it? > In any case I did set the :accept =\> “true”, but it didn’t change > anything. I get the same error when I submit the form whether or not > the box is checked. Set :accept =\> true (no quotes). That’s how I read the docs… if it’s a database column, you need that. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/validates-acceptance-of-question/154693/5 "2008-12-04T01:43:23Z")
Thanks for your help. That was it. Remove the quotes and it works.