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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Writing Tests Validations

Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points
Posted by Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points

Stuck on Validating a users first, last and profile name

I've watched the videos a few times and for some reason I am drawing a complete blank.

Can someone explain this to me so I can understand what I am doing wrong?

My current code:

validates :first_name, :presence, :true

validates :last_name, :presence, :true

validates :profile_name, :presence, :true

end

2 Answers

John O.
John O.
4,680 Points
John O.
John O.
4,680 Points

You have colons and commas in the wrong place. It should look like

validates :first_name, presence: true

Also, if all of your attributes are going have the same validation you can have a single definition with multiple parameters:

validates :first_name, :last_name, :profile_name, presence: true
Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points
Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points

It worked! :) I knew it was something simple lol. Thank you for helping me out on this John.