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JJ Reich
6,180 PointsHaving Problem with REGEX on this video
Once I repaired the regex in this video, it passes the "profile should be correctly formatted" test, but now fails the "a user should have a profile name without spaces" test. Best as I can tell, there is something wrong with my regex ( /[a-zA-Z0-9_-}+/ ). In fact, it doesn't matter what I put into my profile_name now, it passes the correct format test in all cases as long as the profile name isn't empty.
My whole validation for profile_name is:
validates :profile_name, presence: true, uniqueness: true, format: { with: /[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+/, message: 'Must be formatted correctly.' }
The failure that comes up is "Failed assertion, no message given." And it is the line that says:
assert !user.errors[:profile_name].empty?
1 Answer
José Villalobos
Courses Plus Student 1,593 PointsThe correct regex would be /\A[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+\z/ this is because it needs to find the starting and ending of the captured string and if you use ^ or /s it will fail
JJ Reich
6,180 PointsThank you. Worked 4.0!
JJ Reich
6,180 PointsJJ Reich
6,180 Pointscorrection: The regex I'm using is /[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+/ The above was a typo - not the actual problem.