Same here... complaining about unknown options would help, but I'd also 
maybe suggest renaming "validate" to something like "validate_with", which 
I think would be even more readable...

On Saturday, November 3, 2012 12:57:26 PM UTC-4, Henrik N wrote:
>
>
>
> My main issue with "validates" is that it's easy to mix up with "validate" 
> (
> http://apidock.com/rails/v3.2.8/ActiveModel/Validations/ClassMethods/validate
> ).
>
> If you accidentally do "validate :title, presence: true", it will 
> effectively do nothing, and won't explode - it will call the "title" method 
> and expect that method to add validation errors, and "presence: true" just 
> becomes an ignored option.
>
> Tests will catch this, of course, but it's still an easy mistake to make.
>
> I'm not sure what would be a good solution, though. Maybe complaining 
> about unknown options?
>

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