On 19 June 2011 21:26, Bill Felton <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
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