I think the "unique" validation should work:
validates_uniqueness_of :name, :case_sensitive => false
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Deniz Rende <[email protected]> wrote:
> In Rapid Rails with Hobo book, tutorial 3 refers to field validation. To
> prevent duplicate entries, the tutorial suggests adding ":unique" after the
> name.
> While this is indeed preventing adding the same record twice, it does not
> prevent same records with different capitalized letters. For example,
> eventhough logically the following two names are the same, hobo application
> does not prevent entering these two records:
> john doe
> John Doe
> How can I make sure that the capitalization is also included in the
> validation, so that both entries are same and unique?
> Thanks...
>
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