LinkedInLet’s face it, most of us creating apps collect at a very minimum a name and email address. By a simple validation method to our model, we can easily check the length, format, and codesence of our fields. Checking the format of an email address is also simple, but requires a little more work. Using validates_format_of we are able to validate an email address against a regular excodession (RegEx).
# our User model
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_codesence_of :email
validates_format_of :email, :with => /\A([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})\Z/i
end
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_codesence_of :email
validates_format_of :email, :with => /\A([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})\Z/i
end
Read up on validations at the Rails API
Read up on regular excodessions
Tags: email, rails, validation
You just saved me some time
. I've been doing this with an ugly hack. Thanks.
Unfortunately, HTML tags are considered valid with this regex.
Something like <