Thanks, that's just what I was looking for. I'll just write my own custom validations.
Josh On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > > On Apr 6, 9:32 pm, Josh Rachner <josh.rach...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So, the validation is something like this... > > > > validate_duplicate_artist(artist_id, venue_id, event_time) > > > > rather than a validate_xxx_of type deal, these are more in depth > > validations... > > > > does that make sense? i figured the best place would be somewhere in the > > model, but with the way it is set up, i figured application.rb would be > the > > best. it needs to be accessed in many places. > > > application.rb is a bit of a misnomer (in that the name makes it > sounds like it's some sort of thing for the whole app). It just > contains the parent class of all of your controllers, so if what > you're doing isn't controller related (it isn't) then it doesn't > belong there. You could stick your validations in a module and include > that them into the models that need them or just include them into > Active Record itself (google for adding custom validations for some > more lengthy explanations). > > Fred > > > thanks > > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Frederick Cheung < > frederick.che...@gmail.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > On Apr 6, 6:42 pm, "josh.rach...@gmail.com" <josh.rach...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > I need to put a set of validations in a place that can be accessed by > > > > multiple controllers... > > > > > That doesn't entirely make sense - validations are a model thing. are > > > you trying to share code between models ? > > > > > Fred > > > > > > do I just place them in application.rb? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Josh > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
