Validators

Add some nice ActiveModel/ActiveRecord validators.

Installation

gem install validators

Then add it to your Gemfile:

gem "validators"

Usage

validates_email_format_of

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # old fashion
  validates_email_format_of :email

  # alternative way
  validates :email, :email => true
end

By default, it rejects disposable e-mails (e.g. mailinator). This loads ~15kb, but you can disable this validation by setting disposable: true.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_email_format_of :email, disposable: true
end

validates_url_format_of

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_url_format_of :site

  # validates TLD against list of valid TLD.
  # Loads ~5kb of text.
  validates_url_format_of :site, tld: true
end

validates_ownership_of

class Task < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :category

  validates_ownership_of :category, :with => :user
end

user = User.find(1)
another_user = User.find(2)

user_category = user.categories.first
another_user_category = another_user.categories.first

task = user.tasks.create(:category => user_category)
task.valid?
#=> true

task = user.tasks.create(:category => another_user_category)
task.valid?
#=> false

validates_ip_address

class Server < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_ip_address :address
  validates_ip_address :address, :only => :v4
  validates_ip_address :address, :only => :v6
end

validates_datetime

class Server < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_datetime :starts_at
  validates_datetime :ends_at, :after => :starts_at, :if => :starts_at?
  validates_datetime :ends_at, :after => :now
  validates_datetime :ends_at, :before => :today

  validates :starts_at, :datetime => true
end

validates_cpf_format_of

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_cpf_format_of :document
end

validates_cnpj_format_of

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_cnpj_format_of :document
end

validates_hostname

Rules:

• maximum length of hostname is 255 characters
• maximum length of each hostname label is 63 characters
• characters allowed in hostname labels are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and hyphen
• labels do not begin or end with a hyphen
• labels do not consist of numeric values only
• TLD validation (optional)

class Server < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_hostname :hostname
  validates_hostname :hostname, tld: true
end

Maintainer

• Nando Vieira

License

(The MIT License)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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