Case Insensitivy in Rails - ruby-on-rails

I have a users sign up form, but when the users sign back in they are required to type their email address with the same cases as they signed up with. I have measures to prevent this, but for some strange reason they are not working.
In the users model:
validates :email, :presence => true,
:format => { :with => email_regex },
:uniqueness => { :case_sensitive => false }
email_regex = /\A[\w+\-.]+#[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i
This was not working... im not sure why. but then I added another method to see what it did:
before_save :downcase_fields
def downcase_fields
self.email.downcase
end
and down cased the fields when users type them in with this in my sessions controller:
def create
user = User.authenticate(params[:session][:email].downcase,
params[:session][:password])
#...
end
All of this still yields a case sensitive email field when the users sign back in... help?

Try this:
self.email.downcase!

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Rails partial validations depending on conrtoller

I am using devise for user registrations, meaning, that by default new user is registered through registrations_controller. So by clicking button "Register" user is redirected to a new_user_registration path.
My registration form however has two steps. In first step (new_user_registration) I am asking for a name and password. In the second step (users_controller), when user is saved, I am asking for address. This I am doing with wizard gem:
def create
#user = User.new(params[:user])
if #user.save
session[:user_id] = #user.id
redirect_to user_steps_path
else
render :new
end
end
So, those a kind of partioal validations, but I cannnot validate depending in the step, as the first part of my form is handeled through registrations controller. The second part is however in the users_controller. It's getting complicated here and I would like to know, if I can validatede depending on the controller. Like:
validates :first_name, presence: true, if: -> { new_user_registration_path }
validates :last_name, presence: true, if: -> { new_user_registration_path }
validates :street, presence: true, if: -> { new_user_path }
I know, like this, it makes no sence, but maybe it helps to understand my thinking behind. Also, maybe I can work with smth. like:
validates :first_name, presence: true, if: -> { #user.save }
validates :last_name, presence: true, if: -> { #user.save }
validates :street, presence: true, if: -> { #user.update}
So basically, when creating a new user, I would validate if name and password is present. And when then adding address (it's an update action for user), I will check if address is present. Does anyone has experince with forms like this?
Another thought, maybe, I can skip registrations controller, redirecting directly to the user and creating two steps for partial validations? But as I am working with devise, I don't know, if I can just go throught users controller, skipping new_user_registration path. I did it, how it was advised on the wicked tutorial, but still ended up in the registrations controller:
def create
super
end
def update
super
end
Thanks!
The best solution to this type of problem is to use form objects. See this example and the gem Reform.
With form objects, each HTML form is processed via a form object. In your example you could have a "User Registration" form, and a "User update" form. The key point is that the validation is done by the form and not the model. That way the validation is relevant to the current form input, and you avoid the issues of classing validation rules.
It's as easy as that:
validates :first_name, presence: true, :on => :create
validates :last_name, presence: true, :on => :create
validates :street, presence: true, :on => :update
validates :house_number, presence: true, :on => :update
validates :city, presence: true, :on => :update
validates :zip_code, presence: true, :on => :update
Clearly "Sign-Up" creates a User. And the wizard_steps just update the user. So for this simple example this works perfectly and raises validation errors according to the controller action.

How to have exception validation in Rails

I'm a newbie in rails and I'm stuck with this problem: I have a model named User
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessor :password
EMAIL_REGEX = /^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+#[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
validates :first_name, :presence => true,:format => /\A[a-zA-Z]+\z/
validates :last_name, :presence => true,:format => /\A[a-zA-Z]+\z/
validates :email, :presence => true, :uniqueness => true, :format => EMAIL_REGEX
validates :password, :presence => true
validates_length_of :password, :in => 6..20, :on => :create
end
with database attributes first_name, last_name, email, hashed_password and encrypted_password.
When I create new Object of User and saves it in the database there is no problem. NOW, here's the problem I want to edit attributes of my User Object EXCEPT email and password.
Once I try to edit the record through edit of rails resource it flags an error that password should not be empty. I am planning to have an exemption of validation if the user wants to edit his/her information but I know that it is not a good practice.
Hoping to find the best answer.
For starters check out http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_validations.html#conditional-validation - once this approach becomes unDRY (repeated more then 2-3 times) see http://apidock.com/rails/Object/with_options
Once you get more advanced you will want to try something in the lines of a form/service class and extract form/action-specific validations there - http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2012/10/17/7-ways-to-decompose-fat-activerecord-models/
...and welcome to rails :)
Try using
validates :password, :presence => true, on: :create
And in the user edit form add every field except email and password.
But thing is that while you are going to change the password, there is no validation on password. So when you are implementing the change_password section, you need handle it and nee to add the errors manually for the password.
Problem Solved! Im not sure if this is the best solution. Once I instantiate a User object I use the after_initialize then set updatePassword to true as a default value then in the edit action of User Object I set updatePassword to false so that it will be exempted in the validation. I also use the conditional validation for the updatePassword. :D Thanks for all the ideas!

validation fails on SecurePassword Virtual Attributes on custom create at Activerecord Model

I'm trying to mix a custom User authentication mechanism based on SecurePassword with Facebook integration through omniauth-facebook gem.
my app uses Ruby 2.0.0 and Rails 4.0.0.
i tried to follow this guide omniauth and some other articles to came up with something like this for the User and Authentication Models
User model:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :user_playlist
has_one :user_info
has_many :band_likes
has_many :song_likes
has_many :band_comments
has_many :song_comments
has_many :authorizations
#many to many relation between User and Band
#todo: make a bands_users migration
has_and_belongs_to_many :bands
has_secure_password
validates :username, presence: true, uniqueness: {case_sensitive: false}, length: {in: 8..64}, format: {with: /\A[a-zA-Z ]+\Z/, message: 'Debe poseer solo letras y espacios.'}
validates :email, presence: true, uniqueness: {case_sensitive: false}, format: {with: /#/, message: 'Dirección de correo inváilda.'}
validates :password, length: {in: 8..24}
validates :password_confirmation, length: {in: 8..24}
def self.create_from_hash!(hash)
create(:email => hash['info']['email'], :username => hash['info']['name'], :password => hash['uid'], :password_confirmation => hash['uid'] )
end
end
Authorization Model:
class Authorization < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
validates_presence_of :user_id, :uid, :provider
validates_uniqueness_of :uid, :scope => :provider
def self.find_from_hash(hash)
find_by_provider_and_uid(hash['provider'], hash['uid'])
end
def self.create_from_hash(hash, user = nil)
user ||= User.create_from_hash!(hash)
Authorization.create(:user => user, :uid => hash['uid'], :provider => hash['provider'])
end
end
SessionsController
class SessionsController < ApplicationController
def create
auth = request.env['omniauth.auth']
unless #auth = Authorization.find_from_hash(auth)
# Create a new user or add an auth to existing user, depending on
# whether there is already a user signed in.
#auth = Authorization.create_from_hash(auth, current_user)
end
# Log the authorizing user in.
self.current_user = #auth.user
render :text => "Welcome, #{current_user.username}. <br />User saved = #{current_user.save} .<br/>User valid = #{current_user.valid?}.<br />errors= #{current_user.errors.full_messages}"
end
end
The last render was written to check about the fact that my password does not gets validated, it doesn't matter if i use hash['uid'], hash['info']['name'], or whatever.
The reason why i use this values is just because, i will figure out later how to build a random password for the oauth-ed user, but i don't want blank ones nor disable the validations.
but, no matter what value i use, always get only my name and email:
*Welcome, "My Real Name Here.
User saved = false.
User valid = false.
errors= ["Password is too short (minimum is 8 characters)", "Password confirmation is too short (minimum is 8 characters)"]*
When creating users in Rails Console got no problem, just when OAuth tries to create a User with create_from_hash.
also, if i try to assign a non existing value from hash to password fields, it adds the message that can be blank. so, it isn't blank.
and rendering hash['uid'] in controller shows that it's longer than 8.
I Must warn that i'm new to rails, so if you can, explain me with apples xD
Thanks in advance!
finally i came up with this on User model:
def self.create_from_hash!(hash)
self.where(:email => hash.info.email.to_s).first_or_create do |user|
user.email = hash.info.email
user.username = hash.info.name
user.password = hash.uid
user.password_confirmation = hash.uid
end
end
I don't know why the later doesn't work but at least this one works!
Greetings!

Rails 3 - how to skip validation rule?

I have for the registration form this validation rule:
validates :email,
:presence => {:message => 'cannot be blank.'},
:allow_blank => true,
:format => {
:with => /\A[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+#[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]+\z/,
:message => 'address is not valid. Please, fix it.'
},
:uniqueness => true
This rule check, if a user fill into the registration form email address (+ its correct format).
Now I am trying to add the opportunity to log in with using Twitter. Twitter doesn't provide user's email address.
How to skip in this case the validation rule above?
You can skip validation while saving the user in your code. Instead of using user.save!, use user.save(:validate => false). Learnt this trick from Railscasts episode on Omniauth
I'm not sure whether my answer is correct, just trying to help.
I think you can take help from this question. If i modify the accepted answer for your question, it will be like (DISCLAIMER: I could not test the following codes as env is not ready in the computer i'm working now)
validates :email,
:presence => {:message => 'cannot be blank.', :if => :email_required? },
:allow_blank => true,
:format => {
:with => /\A[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+#[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]+\z/,
:message => 'address is not valid. Please, fix it.'
},
:uniqueness => true
def email_required?
#logic here
end
Now, you update the email_required? method to determine whether it is from twitter or not! If from twitter, return false otherwise true.
I believe, you need use same :if for the :uniqueness validator too. otherwise it will. Though, i'm not sure too :(. Sorry
Skipping Individual Validations
Skipping individual validations requires a bit more work. We need to create a property on our model called something like skip_activation_price_validation:
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessor :skip_activation_price_validation
validates_numericality_of :activation_price, :greater_than => 0.0, unless: :skip_activation_price_validation
end
Next we will set the property to true any time we want to skip validations. For example:
def create
#product = Product.new(product_params)
#product.skip_name_validation = true
if #product.save
redirect_to products_path, notice: "#{#product.name} has been created."
else
render 'new'
end
end
def update
#product = Product.find(params[:id])
#product.attributes = product_params
#product.skip_price_validation = true
if #product.save
redirect_to products_path, notice: "The product \"#{#product.name}\" has been updated. "
else
render 'edit'
end
end
You seem to be doing two separate validations here:
If a user provides an email address, validate it's format and uniqueness
Validate the presence of an email address, unless it's a twitter signup
I would do this as two separate validations:
validates :email,
:presence => {:message => "..."},
:if => Proc.new {|user| user.email.blank? && !user.is_twitter_signup?}
validates :email,
:email => true, # You could use your :format argument here
:uniqueness => { :case_sensitive => false }
:unless => Proc.new {|user| user.email.blank?}
Additional info: validate email format only if not blank Rails 3
The best way would be:
It would validate the email when the user is not signed in from twitter as well as skip email validation when signed from twitter.
validates :email,
:presence => {:message => 'cannot be blank.'},
:allow_blank => true,
:format => {
:with => /\A[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+#[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]+\z/,
:message => 'address is not valid. Please, fix it.'
},
:uniqueness => true
unless: Proc.new {|user| user.is_twitter_signup?}

attr_accessor and password validation on update

I have this code in my user model:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation
attr_accessor :password
before_save :encrypt_password
validates :email, :presence => true,
:uniqueness => { :case_sensitive => false },
:format => { :with => /\A[^#]+#[^#]+\z/ },
:length => 7..128
validates :password, :presence => true,
:confirmation => true,
:length => 6..128
private
def encrypt_password
return unless password
self.encrypted_password = BCrypt::Password.create(password)
end
end
Now in my controller when I'm updating some user fields with
#user.update_attributes(params[:user])
the password field is always validated, even when it is not set in the params hash. I figured that this is happening because of the attr_accesor :password which always sets password = "" on update_attributes.
Now I could simply skip the validation of password if it is an empty string:
validates :password, :presence => true,
:confirmation => true,
:length => 6..128,
:if => "password.present?"
But this doesn't work because it allows a user to set an empty password.
Using update_attribute on the field I'd like to change is not a solution because i need validation on that attribute.
If I pass in the exact parameter with
#user.update_attributes(params[:user][:fieldname])
it doesn't solve the problem because it also triggers password validation.
Isn't there a way to prevent attr_accesor :password from always setting password = "" on update?
New answer
This works for me:
validates :password, :presence => true,
:confirmation => true,
:length => { :minimum => 6 },
:if => :password # only validate if password changed!
If I remember correctly it also took me some time to get this right (a lot of trial and error). I never had the time to find out exactly why this works (in contrast to :if => "password.present?").
Old answer - not really useful for your purpose (see comments)
I get around this problem by using a completely different action for password update (user#update_password). Now it is sufficient to only validate the password field
:on => [:create, :update_password]
(and also only make it accessible to those actions).
Here some more details:
in your routes:
resources :users do
member do
GET :edit_password # for the user#edit_password action
PUT :update_password # for the user#update_passwor action
end
end
in your UsersController:
def edit_password
# could be same content as #edit action, e.g.
#user = User.find(params[:id])
end
def update_password
# code to update password (and only password) here
end
In your edit_password view, you now have a form for only updating the password, very similar to your form in the edit view, but with :method => :put and :url => edit_password_user_path(#user)
The solution I have started using to get round this problem is this:
Start using ActiveModel's built in has_secure_password method.
At console
rails g migration add_password_digest_to_users password_digest:string
rake db:migrate
In your model:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_secure_password
attr_accessible :login_name, :password, :password_confirmation
# secure_password.rb already checks for presence of :password_digest
# so we can assume that a password is present if that validation passes
# and thus, we don't need to explicitly check for presence of password
validates :password,
:length => { :minimum => 6 }, :if => :password_digest_changed?
# secure_password.rb also checks for confirmation of :password
# but we also have to check for presence of :password_confirmation
validates :password_confirmation,
:presence=>true, :if => :password_digest_changed?
end
And finally,
# In `config/locales/en.yml` make sure that errors on
# the password_digest field refer to "Password" as it's more human friendly
en:
hello: "Hello world"
activerecord:
attributes:
user:
password_digest: "Password"
Oh, one more thing: watch the railscast

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