Jim Burgess wrote:
> 
>> you can even shorten that to
>> 
>> validates_numericality_of :children, :if => Proc.new { |applicant|
>> applicant.children !="" }
>> 
> 

Looks like a case for allow_nil:

validates_numericality_of :children, :allow_nil => true

The documentation at
http://ar.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Validations/ClassMethods.html#M000091

mentions

:allow_nil - Skip validation if attribute is nil (default is false). 
Notice that for fixnum and float columns empty strings are converted to 
nil.


Stephan

> Cool!
> Thanks a lot.

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