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Module: ActiveModel::Validations

Overview

Provides a full validation framework to your objects.

A minimal implementation could be:

class Person
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  attr_accessor :first_name, :last_name

  validates_each :first_name, :last_name do |record, attr, value|
    record.errors.add attr, 'starts with z.' if value.to_s[0] == ?z
  end
end

Which provides you with the full standard validation stack that you know from Active Record:

person = Person.new
person.valid?                   # => true
person.invalid?                 # => false

person.first_name = 'zoolander'
person.valid?                   # => false
person.invalid?                 # => true
person.errors.messages          # => {first_name:["starts with z."]}

Note that Validations automatically adds an #errors method to your instances initialized with a new Errors object, so there is no need for you to do this manually.

Class Method Summary

Instance Method Summary

DSL Calls

included

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# File 'activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb', line 42

included do
  extend ActiveModel::Naming
  extend ActiveModel::Callbacks
  extend ActiveModel::Translation

  extend  HelperMethods
  include HelperMethods

  attr_accessor :validation_context
  private :validation_context=
  define_callbacks :validate, scope: :name

  class_attribute :_validators, instance_writer: false, default: Hash.new { |h, k| h[k] = [] }
end

Instance Method Details

#errors

Returns the Errors object that holds all information about attribute error messages.

class Person
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  attr_accessor :name
  validates_presence_of :name
end

person = Person.new
person.valid? # => false
person.errors # => #<ActiveModel::Errors:0x007fe603816640 @messages={name:["can't be blank"]}>
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# File 'activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb', line 303

def errors
  @errors ||= Errors.new(self)
end

#invalid?(context = nil) ⇒ Boolean

Performs the opposite of #valid?. Returns true if errors were added, false otherwise.

class Person
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  attr_accessor :name
  validates_presence_of :name
end

person = Person.new
person.name = ''
person.invalid? # => true
person.name = 'david'
person.invalid? # => false

Context can optionally be supplied to define which callbacks to test against (the context is defined on the validations using :on).

class Person
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  attr_accessor :name
  validates_presence_of :name, on: :new
end

person = Person.new
person.invalid?       # => false
person.invalid?(:new) # => true
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# File 'activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb', line 375

def invalid?(context = nil)
  !valid?(context)
end

#raise_validation_error (private)

Raises:

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# File 'activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb', line 413

def raise_validation_error # :doc:
  raise(ValidationError.new(self))
end

#read_attribute_for_validation

Hook method defining how an attribute value should be retrieved. By default this is assumed to be an instance named after the attribute. Override this method in subclasses should you need to retrieve the value for a given attribute differently:

class MyClass
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  def initialize(data = {})
    @data = data
  end

  def read_attribute_for_validation(key)
    @data[key]
  end
end
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# File 'activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb', line 404

alias :read_attribute_for_validation :send

#valid?(context = nil) ⇒ Boolean Also known as: #validate

Runs all the specified validations and returns true if no errors were added otherwise false.

class Person
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  attr_accessor :name
  validates_presence_of :name
end

person = Person.new
person.name = ''
person.valid? # => false
person.name = 'david'
person.valid? # => true

Context can optionally be supplied to define which callbacks to test against (the context is defined on the validations using :on).

class Person
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  attr_accessor :name
  validates_presence_of :name, on: :new
end

person = Person.new
person.valid?       # => true
person.valid?(:new) # => false
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# File 'activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb', line 336

def valid?(context = nil)
  current_context, self.validation_context = validation_context, context
  errors.clear
  run_validations!
ensure
  self.validation_context = current_context
end

#validate(context = nil)

Alias for #valid?.

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# File 'activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb', line 344

alias_method :validate, :valid?

#validate!(context = nil)

Runs all the validations within the specified context. Returns true if no errors are found, raises ValidationError otherwise.

Validations with no :on option will run no matter the context. Validations with some :on option will only run in the specified context.

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# File 'activemodel/lib/active_model/validations.rb', line 384

def validate!(context = nil)
  valid?(context) || raise_validation_error
end

#validates_with(*args, &block)

Passes the record off to the class or classes specified and allows them to add errors based on more complex conditions.

class Person
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  validate :instance_validations

  def instance_validations
    validates_with MyValidator
  end
end

Please consult the class method documentation for more information on creating your own validator.

You may also pass it multiple classes, like so:

class Person
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  validate :instance_validations, on: :create

  def instance_validations
    validates_with MyValidator, MyOtherValidator
  end
end

Standard configuration options (:on, :if and :unless), which are available on the class version of validates_with, should instead be placed on the validates method as these are applied and tested in the callback.

If you pass any additional configuration options, they will be passed to the class and available as options, please refer to the class version of this method for more information.

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# File 'activemodel/lib/active_model/validations/with.rb', line 137

def validates_with(*args, &block)
  options = args.extract_options!
  options[:class] = self.class

  args.each do |klass|
    validator = klass.new(options, &block)
    validator.validate(self)
  end
end