Module: MongoModel::DocumentExtensions::Validations::ClassMethods

Defined in:
lib/mongomodel/document/validations.rb,
lib/mongomodel/document/validations/uniqueness.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#create!(attributes = {}, &block) ⇒ Object

Creates an object just like Document.create but calls save! instead of save so an exception is raised if the document is invalid.



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# File 'lib/mongomodel/document/validations.rb', line 17

def create!(attributes={}, &block)
  if attributes.is_a?(Array)
    attributes.map { |attrs| create!(attrs, &block) }
  else
    object = new(attributes, &block)
    object.save!
    object
  end
end

#property(name, *args, &block) ⇒ Object

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/mongomodel/document/validations.rb', line 7

def property(name, *args, &block) #:nodoc:
  property = super
  
  validates_uniqueness_of(name) if property.options[:unique]
  
  property
end

#validates_uniqueness_of(*attr_names) ⇒ Object

Validates whether the value of the specified attributes are unique across the system. Useful for making sure that only one user can be named “davidhh”.

class Person < MongoModel::Document
  validates_uniqueness_of :user_name, :scope => :account_id
end

It can also validate whether the value of the specified attributes are unique based on multiple scope parameters. For example, making sure that a teacher can only be on the schedule once per semester for a particular class.

class TeacherSchedule < MongoModel::Document
  validates_uniqueness_of :teacher_id, :scope => [:semester_id, :class_id]
end

When the document is created, a check is performed to make sure that no document exists in the database with the given value for the specified attribute (that maps to a property). When the document is updated, the same check is made but disregarding the document itself.

Configuration options:

  • :message - Specifies a custom error message (default is: “has already been taken”).

  • :scope - One or more properties by which to limit the scope of the uniqueness constraint.

  • :case_sensitive - Looks for an exact match. Ignored by non-text columns (true by default).

  • :index - If set to false, disables the unique index constraint (default is true).

  • :allow_nil - If set to true, skips this validation if the attribute is nil (default is false).

  • :allow_blank - If set to true, skips this validation if the attribute is blank (default is false).

  • :if - Specifies a method, proc or string to call to determine if the validation should occur (e.g. :if => :allow_validation, or :if => Proc.new { |user| user.signup_step > 2 }). The method, proc or string should return or evaluate to a true or false value.

  • :unless - Specifies a method, proc or string to call to determine if the validation should not occur (e.g. :unless => :skip_validation, or :unless => Proc.new { |user| user.signup_step <= 2 }). The method, proc or string should return or evaluate to a true or false value.

Concurrency and integrity

Note that this validation method does not have the same race condition suffered by ActiveRecord and other ORMs. A unique index is added to the collection to ensure that the collection never ends up in an invalid state.



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# File 'lib/mongomodel/document/validations/uniqueness.rb', line 109

def validates_uniqueness_of(*attr_names)
  validates_with UniquenessValidator, _merge_attributes(attr_names)
end