The solution was to change the contents of contact.rb to the following: class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
hobo_model # Don't put anything above this fields do name :string, :required company :string address_1 :string address_2 :string city :string state :string date_met :date married :boolean age :integer notes :text timestamps end validates_uniqueness_of :name, :scope => [:address_1, :city, :state] # --- Permissions --- # def create_permitted? acting_user.administrator? end def update_permitted? acting_user.administrator? end def destroy_permitted? acting_user.administrator? end def view_permitted?(field) true end end I did not take the time to add the ZipCode field or address_2, but you get the idea. The scope adds more fields to the name field to determine whether the record has enough "uniqueness". For any company with a large number of customers nation wide, this sort of thing is required. Works exactly like I had hoped. I tried entering "John Smith" for two separate records, with slightly different addresses, and it saved both records. Now I want to find a way to visually distinguish easily between those two records from the first "Contact" page. In other words, create a calculated field that concatenates the name field, address_1, city, state, and ZipCode so that I know immediately which "John Smith" to click on. Sincerely, Arthur Baldwin ________________________________ From: Arthur Baldwin <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 1:11 PM Subject: Re: [Hobo Users] Re: Multi - Field Uniqueness Ok, I got it working! I had forgotten to include a colon in front of the field names between the opening and closing brackets. Arthur ________________________________ From: Arthur Baldwin <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [Hobo Users] Re: Multi - Field Uniqueness What do you mean when you say "fall back to the rails validation"? Do I need to make changes to a different file than the conact.rb file in the models directory? Arthur ________________________________ From: kevinpfromnm <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Arthur Baldwin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 12:03 PMco Subject: [Hobo Users] Re: Multi - Field Uniqueness you'll need to fall back to the rails validation (which the hobo is a rails validation, just a shortcut for a common use case). IIRC, the syntax is like validates_uniqueness_of :field, :scope => [:other_field1,...] If that's not enough to get you going, you can get to the rails docs pretty easy with a quick google search on validates_uniquess_of (should autocomplete after the u) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hobousers/-/VvjxOt3xpyAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
