Simplify email validation
In ActiveRecord their’s a lot of validations functions but personnaly I missed one: validates_email_of.
As I know the simplest way to do it is by using validates_format_of in your model like this:
validates_format_of :email, :with => /^([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})$/i
to make it even easier let’s add the following part of code in lib/validates_email_of.rb:
module ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods
def validates_email_of(*attr)
validates_format_of attr, :with => /^([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})$/i
end
end
now include this library in config/enrivonment.rb
require 'validates_email_of'
what’s about now ? Just restart your server and you will be able to enjoy this new validations function for your models!
So now you may just need to do:
validates_email_of :email
That’s seem better to me, no need to copy/paste or remember the email validation regexp ;-)
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