While technically you could say that "false" is "present", it would be really unintuitive for most of the people as present? is supposed to be just opposite of blank? and is used to check for truthiness. Additionally present? is used in Rails app for a long time, so even if part of Rails Core had agreed with your arguments, I would be really surprised seeing this changed.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Matt Jones <al2o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2013, at 7:36 AM, James Pinto wrote: > > I understand where you're coming from, > and I completely disagree > > false is blank, but it's not nil, > however, in some cases, falseness should not be validated > > "validates_presence_of :aggrees_with_contract"* is correct, requires the > user to check the contract* > "validates_presence_of :displays_photo_for_guests" *is incorrect, because > it's only a question and it's ok if the user forgets or chooses not to mark > * > > > If it's OK if the user doesn't send this value, *why* are you validating > for it to be present? Set a default for your boolean column (which you > should be doing anyways :) ) and have a nice life. > > --Matt Jones > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Piotr Sarnacki http://piotrsarnacki.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
