Thanks for all help! On 12 Aug, 15:34, Juan Alvarado <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Colin Law wrote: > > > 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}, > > You have {} instead of () around the , and \s. Also, I don't believe the ',' > has to be escaped (it didn't work with it escaped and it does if i remove the > escaping. With those 2 issues fixed it works for me on rubular. > > > > > > > > > > >> :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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > Juan Alvarado
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