[Rails] Re: How To Validate Boolean Form Field

[Nithin Reddy]

To be able to validate a field, it must be present.

Try...
validates_presence_of :first_name, :last_name, :street, :city,
:state, :zip, :AZ_resident

- Nithin
On 3/1/06, Matthew Feadler <matthew at feadler.com> wrote:
> > Have you tried this?
> >
> > def validate
> >   errors.add(:AZ_resident, "You must be an Arizona resident") if
> > AZ_resident = false
> > end
>
> After correcting syntax errors, I tried:
>
>   def validate
>     errors.add(:AZ_resident, "You must be an Arizona resident") if
> :AZ_resident == false
>   end
>
> No difference.  Forms with AZ_resident left FALSE are happily inserted
> into the database; no errors raised.
>
> But, moreover, what is wrong with my use of the validates_acceptance_of
> method?  According to the docs found @
> http://rubyonrails.org/api/classes/ActiveRecord/Validations/ClassMethods.html,
> I'm doing everything right.
>
> Thanks folks,
>
> -ELf
>
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