[Rails] Extra Fields?

[Russ Smith]

I like the idea of keeping the validation in the model. It just makes 
the controller code feel cleaner.

On Nov 11, 2004, at 1:13 PM, Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:

> Tobias Luetke wrote:
>
>> I would recommend against doing the confirm password validation as
>> part of the model.
>>
>> This would have the disadvantage that you have to supply password
>> confirmation whenever want to create a user. Inconvenient for admin
>> interfaces and especially from IRB.
>>
>
> You can always write the check condition as:
>
> if self.confirm_password && self.password == self.confirm_password
>
> and if no confirm_password is provided, don't change the password.
>
> The big advantage is consistent use of AR::Errors in the form for 
> reporting mismatched password.
>
> Alex
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