rails_email_validator

Installation

Add the following line to your Gemfile

gem "rails_email_validator"

If you want to use it as plugin

rails plugin install git://github.com/phatworx/rails_email_validator.git

Using

Use to validate email

validates :email, :email => true

Use email validation without mx validation

validates :email, :email => { :validate_mx => false }

Use email validation without idn support

validates :email, :email => { :allow_idn => false }

Features

  • validates local part of email

  • validates domain part of email

  • validate domain has a valid mx entry

  • idn support if idn available

  • tests for validator

IDN support

If you want to support idn for email, you must install idn.

fork with ruby 1.9 support

gem "idn", :git => "git://github.com/mihu/idn.git"

Maintainers

Contributing to rails_email_validator

  • Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn’t been implemented or the bug hasn’t been fixed yet

  • Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn’t requested it and/or contributed it

  • Fork the project

  • Start a feature/bugfix branch

  • Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution

  • Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

  • Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright © 2010 Marco Scholl. See LICENSE.txt for further details.