Hello,
I'm having trouble with after_validation_on_create causing my validations to fail silently. I've got a restful_authentication based user model that requires a number of things from the user: email, dob, gender, etc. When a user is created, all of these are validated in various ways (presence, inclusion_of, etc.). Afterwards, I call three protected methods using after_validation_on_create. These make the user an alias, a password and a profile. The problem I'm having is that rely on data the user enters (like gender) to generate their information correctly. So long as I do not call after_validation_on_create, the validations all work fine and the controller passes the errors back to the view. However, the moment I uncomment the after_validation_on_create line in my model all the validations stop working. I only know they haven't worked because the private methods throw NoMethodErrors when the user doesn't enter something.
Here's an example:
validates_acceptance_of :terms_of_service, :on => :create, :allow_nil => false validates_length_of :email, :within => 6..100 validates_uniqueness_of :user_alias, :email, :case_sensitive => false validates_inclusion_of :gender, :in => %w( m f ), :message => ': So what are you then?'
after_validation_on_create :make_new_alias
...
protected def make_new_alias self.user_alias = "#{get_random_word(:gender => self.gender ).word.downcase}.to_s}" end
Get random word is just a find off of a table of exactly that.
Any one have any ideas why this might be happening? Is there anything I can do about it?
Best, TA
