You might be able to utilize html5 validation, all depends on the requirements. http://diveintohtml5.info/forms.html#validation On Apr 15, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Michael Roess <mike.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. -- 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/8842069F-DDE3-4FF5-B159-980DE9A19441%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
