ActiveRecord supports composed_of for value objects which is
fantastic but one thing that it doesn’t seem to support (or at least
I am unable to find any documentation for) validation of the value
objects.
For example, given the following:
class Message < ActiveRecord::Base
composed_of :sender, :class_name => ‘EmailAddress’
composed_of :recipient, :class_name => ‘EmailAddress’
…
end
class EmailAddress
attr_reader :name, :address
def initialize(name, address)
@name, @address = name, address
end
…
end
How can I best take advantage of Rails’ validation, given that I’d
like to only specify the validation rules for EmailAddress once. The
validation rules might look something like:
validates_presence_of :name, :address
validates_format_of :email, :with => ADDRESS_FORMAT
I’m guessing the obvious answer is to create an email_addresses table
and use belongs_to but that seems (to me at least) a somewhat heave-
handed approach.
Regards,
Simon
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