On Jun 19, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Mauro wrote: > On 19 June 2011 13:43, Bill Felton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jun 19, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Mauro wrote: >> >>> In the model I have: >>> >>> validates :square_meters_public_land, :barrier_meters, :numericality >>> => { :greater_than_or_equal_to => 0 }, :allow_nil => true >>> >>> but if, in the field, on create, I don't insert a value I have the >>> error "field is not a number". >> >> >> Include the :allow_blank option if the fields are not required. >> I generally think about this in terms of "specifying a validation always >> includes :required; if that's not what I want, I have to include >> :allow_blank". > > That's ok, they are numeric fields I thought that allow_nil should be ok.
I would have expected :allow_nil to work, but apparently it's giving problems? FWIW, I always tend to think in terms of :allow_blank rather than :allow_nil. Perhaps an artifact of my years in Smalltalk? If :allow_nil isn't working, as I gather from the posts that appeared before mine (after I posted, but long before mine showed up), have you tried :allow_blank? Does that work better, worse, or no different? regards, Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
