Validation order when mixing callbacks and validates_format

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Can you post your before_validation code?

What actually blows up? Can you also post the relevant lines from the log?

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brewpoo wrote:

Can you post your before_validation code?

What actually blows up? Can you also post the relevant lines from the log?

I am having this same problem. It seems the before_validation isn't working in mine:

    before_validation :normalize_phone_number

    validates_format_of :number, :with => /^[0-9]{10,15}$/

    protected

    def normalize_phone_number       self.number.gsub(/-/,"").gsub(/ /,"")     end

The object won't save since it fails the validates_format_of since it never runs the before_validation. I'm running Rails 2.1.0.

Any ideas?

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I just figured out what I was doing wrong.

I was using "gsub" instead of "gsub!"

now it is working fine

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I'm having the same problem. I want to allow people to enter a value including a $ or £. With this method, the value of the attribute in before_validation is zero if I enter a value with text (or a $) at the start.

So entering $1000 is turned into 0, before before_validation.

Any ideas?

Marli Ba wrote: