Add validations to your ActiveRecord models based on your database constraints.

This gem is primarily intended for MySQL databases not running in strict mode, which can easily cause data loss. These problems are documented in DataLossTest

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'activerecord-databasevalidations'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install activerecord-databasevalidations

You can use ActiveModel's validates method to define what fields you want to validate based on the database constraints.

class Foo < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :boolean_field, database_constraints: :not_null
  validates :string_field, database_constraints: [:size, :basic_multilingual_plane]
end

You can also use validates_database_constraints_of:

class Bar < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_database_constraints_of :my_field, with: :size
end

You have to specify what conatrints you want to validate for. Valid values are:

• :size to validate for the size of textual and binary columns. It will pick character size or bytesize based on the column's type.
• :not_null to validate a NOT NULL contraint.
• :basic_multilingual_plane to validate that all characters for text fields are inside the basic multilingual plane of unicode (unless you use the utf8mb4 character set).

The validations will only be created if it makes sense for the column, e.g. a :not_null validation will only be added if the column has a NOT NULL constraint defined on it.

You can also instantiate the validators yourself:

class Bar < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :string_field, bytesize: { maximum: 255}, basic_multilingual_plane: true
  validates :string_field, not_null: true
end

Note that this will create validations without inspecting the column to see if it actually makes sense.

1. Fork it (http://github.com/wvanbergen/activerecord-databasevalidations/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request