allow_blank in older version of Rails

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Hi,

Our hosting company is using RoR 1.2.3. This version does not seem to support the "allow_blank => true" validation rule. I have two questions ...

1. Is it possible to combine other validation rules to simulate "allow_blank"?

2. If #1 is not possible, is it possible to write a plugin that would allow me to use the "allow_blank" directive?

Thanks, - Dave

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laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:

Our hosting company is using RoR 1.2.3. This version does not seem to support the "allow_blank => true" validation rule. I have two questions ...

1. Is it possible to combine other validation rules to simulate "allow_blank"?

Add option              :if => proc { |m| !m.blank? }

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Thanks, but that didn't seem to work. When I left my "fax" field blank, I got an error message returned from validation "Fax cannot be blank". Here's my validation rule:

  validates_presence_of :fax, :if => proc { |m| !m.blank? }

What I would like is for the field to be allowed to be empty or nil, but because of RoR 1.2.3 I can't use allow_blank. - Dave

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Thanks, but that didn't seem to work. When I left my "fax" field blank, I got an error message returned from validation "Fax cannot be blank". Here's my validation rule:

validates_presence_of :fax, :if => proc { |m| !m.blank? }

What I would like is for the field to be allowed to be empty or nil, but because of RoR 1.2.3 I can't use allow_blank. - Dave

The object that gets passed to the proc is the record itself, so you need m.fax.blank?

Fred

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Frederick Cheung wrote:

The object that gets passed to the proc is the record itself, so you need m.fax.blank?

Whoops, thanks Fred. Another 4am blunder.

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Thanks guys. Let me go one step further. I downloaded a "validates_as_phone" plugin. So what I want to do is only validate the fax field is a user has entered a non-empty value. However, right now, this rule

  validates_as_phone :fax, :if => proc { |m| m.blank? }

doesn't kick in, even if the user has entered a value like "111". How can I adjust the above?

- Dave

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Thanks guys. Let me go one step further. I downloaded a "validates_as_phone" plugin. So what I want to do is only validate the fax field is a user has entered a non-empty value. However, right now, this rule

validates_as_phone :fax, :if => proc { |m| m.blank? }

Like i said before, that needs to be m.fax.blank?

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My bad, and it's not even 4 in the morning. Thanks for the follow-up, Fred. Works great, - Dave

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Frederick Cheung wrote:

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Have you tried

:allow_nil => true

? I use that on 1.2.x and 2.0.2.

Peace, Phillip