On 12 August 2011 14:08, Niklas Nson <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to validate a string from a user (a location for use with > geotagging) that is. I want to make sure that the user specify a city > and a country in my inp ... So i wrote this => > > validates :usri_location, > :presence => true, > :format => {:with => /^[a-zA-Z]+{\,\s}+[a-zA-Z]/i}, > :on => :create > > I want to make sure that the user writes city, country > > city + ", " + country > > but all i get is (invalid) some one with more experience with regex > wanting to help out or show me in a direction.
The way I tackle this sort of problem is to start with a simple regex and slowly build it up. So you could start with just expecting alpha characters and check that it accepts the city ok, then add the expected comma, and so on. Colin -- 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.
