Hi all, Thanks for the suggestions. I was hoping to avoid client-side validations just because it means replicating a lot of work already done (and my JS/JQuery is not up to snuff, but I should take it as an opportunity to work on that). That will be the route I take, I guess.
Dave: the 'I prefer not to answer' is the best option if we assume humans act rationally. However, if you state that as an option many people assume there is some reason that they should not answer and they not only choose not to answer but become more suspicious and tend to drop out of the study. Also, if personal experience is generalizable, many people are lazy and will just click that if they don't to look up an answer. For these reasons we'd like to avoid cluing them in to the fact that they can skip the question, but we want to let them skip it if they have an actual objection to providing the information. Max: Yes, I plan to keep the server side validations in check for everything important. These question pertain mostly to demographic information--household income and the like--that people may have objections to sharing, and that won't destroy our data if they're absent--just present a less rich picture. Once again, thanks all for the feedback. It's encouraging as to someone starting freelance work. Mike On Monday, April 14, 2014 3:30:51 PM UTC-4, Michael Roess wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new-ish part time rails dev, self taught, so I apologize if this is > a question that I should know the answer to. I've had no luck finding a > way to implement soft validations in rails (i.e. the form will give you a > warning that certain fields are not right and an option to go back an > correct them or to submit the incorrect information). > > We have a demographics form that asks for sensitive information--so we > would like to let people know if they simply skipped a question > accidentally, but permits them to submit the form without having answered > all of the questions should they prefer. In case it matters--we're only > looking at radio buttons and check boxes, and we're only checking to see if > the questions were answered. > > The only thing I was able to find was a rubyforge gem abandoned over six > years ago. > > Does anyone know if there is any way to do this with rails? > > Thanks for any help! > > Mike > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/b970e8d0-ca66-4a6b-92fb-5a700bd0651b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
