I have a table 'Contribution' having a column, 'price' which must be
integers.

  validate :price => true, :numericality => { :only_intger => true }

then, in creating a new Contribution DB, I need to check the user input
values. Of course, if the values are not valid, it needs to stay in the
same page showing error messages .

in 'contributions_controller.rb',

    respond_to do |format|
      if @contribution.save
        format.html { render action: "new", notice: 'Contribution was
successfully created.' }
        format.json { render json: @contribution, status: :created,
location: @contribution }
      else
        format.html { render action: "index" }
        format.json { render json: @contribution.errors, status:
:unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end

hoping that the 'save' method FAILS upon inputing string values, for
example.

But interestingly, if I input, say, 'this' in the input form, it directs
to the next page and the '0' (an integer, though) value is inserted in
the DB.  I do not have any default value to 'price'.

Could anyone point out any mistakes that I am making here?

Thanks in advance.

soichi

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  'this'.to_i

What result do you get?

Yep - zero is an integer. Rails casts the values from params to map to
the DB fields, so if you want validate the values the user typed
rather than the values Rails has translated them to, you may need to
write a custom validation and check the "before_typecast" value.

It's zero...it does not seem good at all ;)

soichi

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I am a newbie to this community.

I recently published a gem called event_watcher for one of my project

http://github.com/zzurang/event_watcher

It is a simple dsl thing that is designed to help monitor certain function calls

I wonder if I can get some feedback or advise in general

Thanks

validates :price, :numericality => { :only_integer => true }

(note the plural 'validates' rather than 'validate' - they do two quite
different things!)

--Matt Jones

  validates :price, :presence => true, ...

and plural, yes, it reminds me Rails like plural nouns.

Thanks.

soichi

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