You can also create writers for your fields and do the cleanup there:
class Phone < ActiveRecord::Base
def number=(num)
write_attribute('number', num.gsub(/\D/, ''))
end
end
which would strip all non digits from a phone number when it's set.
Then, to double-make-sure you can add a validates_format_of to check it
again.
Tom
Patrick Crowley wrote:
So I'm working on a site where users submit links that have certain
properties.
I'm using a couple of the standard validate helpers (presence_of,
uniqueness_of, etc.) but there's additional content shaping I'd like
to do.
So far, I've stuffed these additional content filters into my model's
validate method. Things like stripping white space, using pattern
matching to reformat malformed links, etc.
Just curious... is this common practice? I thought about putting this
code in my controller, but it seems more appropriate to continually
validate the link format, regardless of where content is entered into
the system.
-- Patrick
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