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Rails: how to require at least one field not to be blank

I know I can require a field by adding validates_presence_of :field to the model. However, how do I require at least one field to be mandatory, while not requiring any particular field?

thanks in advance

-- Deb

Solution

  • You can use:

    validate :any_present?

def any_present?
  if %w(field1 field2 field3).all?{|attr| self[attr].blank?}
    errors.add :base, "Error message"
  end
end

    EDIT: updated from original answer for Rails 3+ as per comment.

    But you have to provide field names manually. You could get all content columns of a model with Model.content_columns.map(&:name), but it will include created_at and updated_at columns too, and that is probably not what you want.