validates acceptance of question

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I have a terms of service agreement attached to a checkbox. It seems to work ok and I see

"agreement"=>"0" when the box is not checked in the development log

and

"agreement"=>"1" when the box is checked in the log.

But in the model I this validation:

validates_acceptance_of :agreement,                           :message => "Please accept the terms to proceed"

So when the form is actually filled out, no matter whether the box is checked or not I get:

1 error prohibited this agent from being saved

There were problems with the following fields:

-Agreement, Please accept the terms to proceed

So what am I missing to get this to work?

2

I have a terms of service agreement attached to a checkbox. It seems to work ok and I see

"agreement"=>"0" when the box is not checked in the development log

and

"agreement"=>"1" when the box is checked in the log.

But in the model I this validation:

validates_acceptance_of :agreement,                          :message => "Please accept the terms to proceed"

So when the form is actually filled out, no matter whether the box is checked or not I get:

1 error prohibited this agent from being saved

There were problems with the following fields:

-Agreement, Please accept the terms to proceed

So what am I missing to get this to work?

is :agreement a field in your database? if so the docs say...

:accept - Specifies value that is considered accepted. The default value is a string "1", which makes it easy to relate to an HTML checkbox. This should be set to true if you are validating a database column, since the attribute is typecast from "1" to true before validation.

3

Yes, :agreement is a field in my database. Should I remove it? In any case I did set the :accept => "true", but it didn't change anything. I get the same error when I submit the form whether or not the box is checked. The html shows:

<ul><div class="fieldWithErrors"><input checked="checked" id="agent_agreement" name="agent[agreement]" type="checkbox" value="1" /></div><div class="fieldWithErrors"><input name="agent [agreement]" type="hidden" value="0" /></div>

Am I reading this right that after the checkbox value is set to "1" that then there is a hidden value that is setting it to "0"? Is this supposed to be this way?

4

Yes, :agreement is a field in my database. Should I remove it? In any case I did set the :accept => "true", but it didn't change anything. I get the same error when I submit the form whether or not the box is checked.

Set :accept => true (no quotes). That's how I read the docs... if
it's a database column, you need that.

5

Thanks for your help. That was it. Remove the quotes and it works.