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Ruby

Posted by Anthony Ross
Anthony Ross
2,756 Points

Devise Validation Issues

Hi Everyone,

Happy New Year! I have been following along with the Ruby guide 'build a simple ruby on rails application'. It's been great, I've learned a lot!

That said, I'm afraid that the video is out of date with a few of the gems I'm using and it's causing some issues with devise that I can't seem to get my head around. I can log in, but the validation on the sign-up/register page won't work anymore. It's constantly saying invalid fields (from 5-7 errors) no matter what I try. I've reviewed the devise documentation but unsure what's wrong here.

I don't know if posting my code for one specific example is helpful so I've linked the repository below. Any help is hugely appreciated as I am stuck!

https://github.com/allcentury/treebook

Anthony

1 Answer

Charles Massry
Charles Massry
12,253 Points
Charles Massry
Charles Massry
12,253 Points

I'm not sure if this will work but this works for me and yours is a little different:

In your user model our regular expressions for profile_name are a little different for profile name my regular expression is

  validates :profile_name, presence: true,
                           uniqueness: true,
                           format: {
                             :with => /^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$/,
                             message: 'Must be formatted correctly.'
                           }