Comments on: Removing Rails validations with metaprogramming

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:06:06 +0000

Thank you!

By: Casper Fabricius

Casper Fabricius — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:04:28 +0000

Ben, that looks awesome. Any chance you can change it into a plugin so it can be used in any Rails project?

By: Casper Fabricius

Casper Fabricius — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:40:17 +0000

Nice solution, Will – I actually like that better than mine for this particular case. It is cleaner as you say, and easier to read and understand – less magic. Still, I mostly blogged about my solution because I found it an interesting study into how far you can go with Ruby :)

By: AC

AC — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:19:19 +0000

Looks good. I might have to use this for some crap validation that some plugins/gems have for email which deny valid RFC822 emails.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:52:45 +0000

haha – nope, I was going to propose we coerce^Wconvince Sean to add it to Radiant ;-)

Great work on the extensions though, Josh Hart clued me in…

By: Casper Fabricius

Casper Fabricius — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:01:01 +0000

It is a hack, and an ugly one at that, but since I was writing an extension to be released, I could not rely on changing someone else’s code.

All changes had to be done from my code, but if you have a trick up your sleeve for adding that :if => without modifying existing code I’d like to see it :)

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:35:51 +0000

Whoa. I was running into the exact same thing with mutli_site – login seems to be unque in the User model and there’s no good way of removing the validation. The thing I’m proposing is to add an :if => should_validate_unique_login but I’m not so sure if that’s the best option…

Overriding validations just seems like a hack.