Forms without a database backend

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I'm trying to create a simple contact form. It might use the database later for storing the messages, but not yet, I don't think. However, I'd still like to be able to validate the fields easily, like you would with ActiveRecord.

How can I do this? I'm new to rails so really don't know where to start.

Thanks, Brandon

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You can validate an ActiveRecord object using valid?.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveResource/Validations.html#M000832

This will ensure any model validation you include are ran.

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From: rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:rubyonrails- talk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Donald Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:11 PM To: rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [Rails] Re: Forms without a database backend

You can validate an ActiveRecord object using valid?.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveResource/Validations.html#M000 832

This will ensure any model validation you include are ran.

Thanks, but should I create an ActiveRecord model even though it shouldn't be associated with a table?

Brandon

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It would probably be the easiest way to get to the model validations.

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Have a look at the activerecord_base_without_table plugin: http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/activerecord_base_without_table. It's very simple and I use it a lot in my projects. However, if you ever get into a situation that the framework does a 'describe' ( DESC ) on it, it will fail. Therefore, I modified the plugin to set the table name to "dual". Works like a charm!