Validation in Radiant

maged · December 22, 2007, 5:34am

Does anyone knows if normal ROR validation could be done inside of
Radiant extensions. I’ve tried regular ROR validation methods like
validates_presence_of inside of my model but it does’t work. Does anyone
have an idea on how to do that.

Thanks

Maged M.

maged · December 22, 2007, 6:28am

On Dec 21, 2007, at 11:34 PM, Maged M. wrote:

Does anyone knows if normal ROR validation could be done inside of
Radiant extensions. I’ve tried regular ROR validation methods like
validates_presence_of inside of my model but it does’t work. Does
anyone
have an idea on how to do that.

Validation is a feature of ActiveRecord so it should work flawlessly
in a Radiant extension. Do you need to restart your mongrels? Do you
have a parse error in your models?

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

maged · December 22, 2007, 8:08pm

John W. Long wrote:

On Dec 21, 2007, at 11:34 PM, Maged M. wrote:

Does anyone knows if normal ROR validation could be done inside of
Radiant extensions. I’ve tried regular ROR validation methods like
validates_presence_of inside of my model but it does’t work. Does
anyone
have an idea on how to do that.

Validation is a feature of ActiveRecord so it should work flawlessly
in a Radiant extension. Do you need to restart your mongrels? Do you
have a parse error in your models?

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

It didn’t give me any errors in the console and I restarted the server

That’s what the console looks like preparing my submit

**

Processing AutoController#auto (for 127.0.0.1 at 2007-12-22 13:58:21)
[POST]
Session ID: a0297b2553d2c1ab1c7b036fcb6782af
Parameters: {“commit”=>“Next”, “action”=>“auto”,
“contact”=>{“address1”=>“”, “city”=>“”, “work_phone”=>“”,
“license_state”=>“”, “address2”=>“”, “zip”=>“”,
“birth_date(1i)”=>“2007”, “birth_date(2i)”=>“12”,
“birth_date(3i)”=>“22”, “country”=>“USA”, “cell_phone”=>“”,
“marital_status”=>“Single”, “home_phone”=>“”, “middle_initial”=>“E”,
“first_name”=>“”, “last_name”=>“Makled”, “social_number”=>“”,
“email”=>“”, “driver_license”=>“”, “state”=>“”}, “controller”=>“auto”}

**
and my model
**
class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base

validates_presence_of :first_name
**

any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Maged M.

maged · December 22, 2007, 10:06pm

On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Maged M. wrote:

“contact”=>{“address1”=>“”, “city”=>“”, “work_phone”=>“”,
“license_state”=>“”, “address2”=>“”, “zip”=>“”,
“birth_date(1i)”=>“2007”, “birth_date(2i)”=>“12”,
“birth_date(3i)”=>“22”, “country”=>“USA”, “cell_phone”=>“”,
“marital_status”=>“Single”, “home_phone”=>“”, “middle_initial”=>“E”,
“first_name”=>“”, “last_name”=>“Makled”, “social_number”=>“”,
“email”=>“”, “driver_license”=>“”, “state”=>“”}, “controller”=>“auto”}

What does the code look like in your controller for saving the model?

Can you try this with script/console and see if you get an error:

c = Contact.new
c.save!

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

maged · December 22, 2007, 10:15pm

John W. Long wrote:

On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Maged M. wrote:

“contact”=>{“address1”=>“”, “city”=>“”, “work_phone”=>“”,
“license_state”=>“”, “address2”=>“”, “zip”=>“”,
“birth_date(1i)”=>“2007”, “birth_date(2i)”=>“12”,
“birth_date(3i)”=>“22”, “country”=>“USA”, “cell_phone”=>“”,
“marital_status”=>“Single”, “home_phone”=>“”, “middle_initial”=>“E”,
“first_name”=>“”, “last_name”=>“Makled”, “social_number”=>“”,
“email”=>“”, “driver_license”=>“”, “state”=>“”}, “controller”=>“auto”}

What does the code look like in your controller for saving the model?

Can you try this with script/console and see if you get an error:

c = Contact.new
c.save!

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

When I tried with script/console here is what I got

Loading development environment.

c = Contact.new
=> #<Contact:0xb79d4a74 @attributes={“city”=>nil, “address1”=>nil,
“work_phone”=>nil, “license_state”=>nil, “zip”=>nil, “address2”=>nil,
“country”=>nil, “cell_phone”=>nil, “marital_status”=>nil,
“birth_date”=>nil, “home_phone”=>nil, “middle_initial”=>nil,
“first_name”=>nil, “social_number”=>nil, “last_name”=>nil, “email”=>nil,
“driver_license”=>nil, “state”=>nil}, @new_record=true>
c.save
=> false

and that’s what my action looks like
**
def myAction
radiant_render :layout=> “/sub/”
if session[:contact].nil?
contact=Contact.new(params[:contact])

    session[:contact]=contact

    contact.save
  end

end
**

maged · December 22, 2007, 11:49pm

Andrew O’Brien wrote:

ActiveRecord::Base#save returns false on validation errors. It’s
ActiveRecord::Base#save! that throws an error. Try it with the
exclamation point.

-Andrew

Sorry could you eliborate more. Where to put the exclamation point.

Thanks
-Maged

maged · December 23, 2007, 12:22am

Maged M. wrote:

Andrew O’Brien wrote:

ActiveRecord::Base#save returns false on validation errors. It’s
ActiveRecord::Base#save! that throws an error. Try it with the
exclamation point.

-Andrew

Sorry could you eliborate more. Where to put the exclamation point.

Thanks
-Maged

Got it, forgot the ! but here is my console when I ran it

Loading development environment.

c= Contact.new
=> #<Contact:0xb79d9060 @attributes={“city”=>nil, “address1”=>nil,
“work_phone”=>nil, “license_state”=>nil, “zip”=>nil, “address2”=>nil,
“country”=>nil, “cell_phone”=>nil, “marital_status”=>nil,
“birth_date”=>nil, “home_phone”=>nil, “middle_initial”=>nil,
“first_name”=>nil, “social_number”=>nil, “last_name”=>nil, “email”=>nil,
“driver_license”=>nil, “state”=>nil}, @new_record=true>

c.save!
ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: First name can’t be
blank
from
./script/…/config/…/config/…/vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb:764:in
save_without_transactions!' from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:133:insave!’
from
./script/…/config/…/config/…/vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:59:in
transaction' from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:95:intransaction’
from
./script/…/config/…/config/…/vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:121:in
transaction' from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:133:insave!’
from (irb):2

maged · December 22, 2007, 11:42pm

ActiveRecord::Base#save returns false on validation errors. It’s
ActiveRecord::Base#save! that throws an error. Try it with the
exclamation point.

-Andrew

maged · December 23, 2007, 12:25am

Maged M. wrote:

Maged M. wrote:

Andrew O’Brien wrote:

ActiveRecord::Base#save returns false on validation errors. It’s
ActiveRecord::Base#save! that throws an error. Try it with the
exclamation point.

-Andrew

Sorry could you eliborate more. Where to put the exclamation point.

Thanks
-Maged

Got it, forgot the ! but here is my console when I ran it

Loading development environment.

c= Contact.new
=> #<Contact:0xb79d9060 @attributes={“city”=>nil, “address1”=>nil,
“work_phone”=>nil, “license_state”=>nil, “zip”=>nil, “address2”=>nil,
“country”=>nil, “cell_phone”=>nil, “marital_status”=>nil,
“birth_date”=>nil, “home_phone”=>nil, “middle_initial”=>nil,
“first_name”=>nil, “social_number”=>nil, “last_name”=>nil, “email”=>nil,
“driver_license”=>nil, “state”=>nil}, @new_record=true>

c.save!
ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: First name can’t be
blank
from
./script/…/config/…/config/…/vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb:764:in
save_without_transactions!' from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:133:insave!’
from
./script/…/config/…/config/…/vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:59:in
transaction' from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:95:intransaction’
from
./script/…/config/…/config/…/vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:121:in
transaction' from ./script/../config/../config/../vendor/radiant/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:133:insave!’
from (irb):2

So it seems that it is doing validation, so why I’m not getting the
regualr ROR Validation box on my page and it is going to the next page
any ways?
Any ideas

Thanks
-Maged

maged · December 23, 2007, 3:23am

On Dec 22, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Maged M. wrote:

So it seems that it is doing validation, so why I’m not getting the
regualr ROR Validation box on my page and it is going to the next
page
any ways?

Because the error_messages_for(‘contact’) helper call is not in your
view:

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/ActiveRecordHelper.html#M001005

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

maged · December 25, 2007, 12:40am

John W. Long wrote:

On Dec 22, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Maged M. wrote:

So it seems that it is doing validation, so why I’m not getting the
regualr ROR Validation box on my page and it is going to the next
page
any ways?

Because the error_messages_for(‘contact’) helper call is not in your
view:

Peak Obsession

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

I tried that but still didn’t work. Here is the question,
even without error_messages_for , it is not supposed to go to the next
page if I have validates_presence_of :first_name in my model, right?

the weired thing is, it didn’t save anything to the DB but still went to
the next page. here is how the top part of my view looks now.

**
<%= error_messages_for ‘contact’ -%>
<% form_for :contact, :url => {:action => :auto, :id => @contact} do
|form| %>

Thanks

Maged M.

maged · December 25, 2007, 2:55am

On Dec 24, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Maged M. wrote:

I tried that but still didn’t work. Here is the question,
even without error_messages_for , it is not supposed to go to the next
page if I have validates_presence_of :first_name in my model, right?

It really depends on how you wrote the action in your controller.
Something like this might work:

def create
if request.post?
contact = Contact.new(params[:contact])
if contact.save
flash[:notice] = “Contact saved successfully.”
redirect_to show_url(:id => contact)
else
flash[:error] = “Validation errors occurred while processing this
form. Please take a moment to review the form and correct any input
errors before continuing.”
end
end
end

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com