I’ve got a form which accepts a “price” field and I’m attempting to
validate it and allow some flexibility in the way the user enters it.
It’s a numeric field but I want the user to be able to enter dollar
signs and commas naturally in the data entry.
I’m trying to understand how to use validates_format_of, and I’m not
sure what I’m missing. I’m a beginner at regular expressions but I’ve
been researching it.
I tried an extremely simple case:
validates_format_of :price, :with => /^\d$/
If I understand correctly, this validation should only succeed for a
single digit character and nothing else? I added this to my model and
so far it passes everything–numbers, characters, whitespace, etc.
What am I doing wrong? I figure I’ll get this simplest case working and
move on from there.
I’ve got a form which accepts a “price” field and I’m attempting to
validate it and allow some flexibility in the way the user enters it.
It’s a numeric field but I want the user to be able to enter dollar
signs and commas naturally in the data entry.
I’m trying to understand how to use validates_format_of, and I’m not
sure what I’m missing. I’m a beginner at regular expressions but I’ve
been researching it.
I tried an extremely simple case:
validates_format_of :price, :with => /^\d$/
If I understand correctly, this validation should only succeed for a
single digit character and nothing else? I added this to my model and
so far it passes everything–numbers, characters, whitespace, etc.
What am I doing wrong? I figure I’ll get this simplest case working and
move on from there.
Just wanted to see if I’m doing something wrong here or not. I’d really
like to get validates_format_of to validate a string value before I need
to turn it into an integer. Is that possible? I was able to get
predictable results when applying validates_format_of to a model
attribute which is a string, but it doesn’t seem to work when applying
to an integer value.
What’s the best way to allow the user to enter something like “$500,000”
and turn it into “500000”?
What’s the best way to allow the user to enter something like “$500,000”
and turn it into “500000”?
If you want to allow oddball data entry but clean it up as best as
possible before validation, declare a “before_validation” method on the
model, which rails will automatically call:
def before_validation
money_amount = money_amount.gsub!(/[^\d.]/, “”).to_i
end
this method will strip money_amount of everything except numerals and
decimal points, then convert it to an integer. this is more polite to
your user than just validates_format_of, since it tries to fix their
input rather than just complain about it. you should still run
validations on the results, of course.