ValidatesAsEmail

This gem/plugin is a re-packaged and gem’ified version of the original plugin with credit as follows:

Ximon Eighteen <[email protected]> Dan Kubb <[email protected]> Thijs van der Vossen <[email protected]>

This Ruby on Rails plugin implements an ActiveRecord validation helper called validates_as_email. The helper acts as if validates_format_of was used with a regular expression that defines an RFC822 email address conformance test.

The plugin implements the regular expression here:

http://tfletcher.com/lib/rfc822.rb

Which is an implementation in Ruby of a regular expression published by Cal Henderson for PHP here:

http://www.iamcal.com/publish/articles/php/parsing_email

Installation:

gem sources -a gems.github.com

Install the gem(s): sudo gem install gbdev-validates_as_email

Add to environment.rb initializer block: config.gem ‘gbdev-validates_as_email’, :version => ‘>=0.5.0’, :lib => ‘validates_as_email’, :source => ‘gems.github.com

Usage:

In your model file do something like:

class MyClass < ActiveRecord::Base

validates_as_emaile :email, :message => 'Invalid Email Address', :allow_nil => true

end

Tests:

Some tests have been added.

License:

See the LICENSE file.