I'm such a dork. I completely misread the documentation.
"before_validation_on_create" is exactly what I need. Jeez.
I claim it's been a long week. :-)
Sure glad I could reply to this myself before anyone else had
a chance to, and save a shred of my dignity...
-glenn
Glenn Little wrote:
> I have an issue where I'm trying to do some validation, but part of
> the validation calculation is based on a value that I want to set
> in a before_create filter. Unfortunately, before_create is called
> *after* the validation callbacks, so my value isn't available at
> validation time.
>
> Specifically:
>
> #-------------------------------------------------
> validates_uniqueness_of :account_name,
> :scope => :year
>
> before_create :set_year
>
> (etc etc etc...)
>
> protected
> def set_year
> self.year = <whatever is appropriate>
> end
> #-------------------------------------------------
>
> I want to allow account names to repeat, but not within years.
>
> Is there a clean way to get this behavior without having to mess
> with the constructor? Messing with the constructor just for this
> when it's called so often in other situations seems ham-fisted.
>
> Thanks much!
>
> -glenn
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