Making Validations Optional

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Hello,

I am working with URL validations. I want this validation to be optional if the data exists in the form submission. I have tried several things.

validates_format_of :website,         :if => params[:organization][:website],         :with => /((http|https):\/\/)?[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z] {2,5}(([0-9]{1,5})?\/.*)?/,         :message => "Please enter a valid url"

Of course the challenge is in the :if statement

I won't bother you guys with all of my experiments, but I have tried using :website, :website.length > 0, params[:organization][:website] and creating a method in my organization class. None of these have worked. What am I missing?

Thanks!

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You cannot access params in model.

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Ahhh... so I was barking up the wrong proverbial tree.

The solution to the problem lay in the REGEX code. I simply added a test for zero or one instance at the end:

/(((http|https):\/\/)?[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,5}(([0-9] {1,5})?\/.*)?)*/

Thanks.