Validates Schema

Add a few validations for ActiveRecord objects (ActiveRecord 3.0+) based off of the schema for each table.

Installation

Add the following to your Gemfile:

gem 'validates_schema'

Then install the gem:

$ bundle install

That’s it! There is nothing else you need to do to get validations on your ActiveRecord models. When each of your models inherits ActiveRecord::Base it will automatically look up the schema for that model and generate the appropriate validations based on the schema.

Examples

The following schema:

ActiveRecord::Schema.define do

  create_table :users, :force => true do |t|
    t.string :name, :limit => 200
    t.string :email
    t.string :password, :null => false
    t.string :url, :limit => 128, :null => false
    t.integer :age
    t.integer :pin, :limit => 8, :null => false
    t.float :salt
    t.text :bio
    t.text :summary, :null => false
    t.boolean :alive, :null => false
    t.decimal :salary, :null => false, :precision => 2, :scale => 8
    t.timestamps
  end

end

will generate the following validations:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :name,      :length => {:maximum => 200}
  validates :email,     :length => {:maximum => 255}
  validates :password,  :length => {:maximum => 255}, :presence => true
  validates :url,       :length => {:maximum => 128}, :presence => true
  validates :age,       :numericality => {:only_integer => true}
  validates :pin,       :numericality => {:only_integer => true}, :presence=>true
  validates :salt,      :numericality => true
  validates :summary,   :presence => true
  validates :alive,     :presence => true
  validates :salary,    :numericality => true, :presence => true
end