Sanatio

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Sanatio is a gem that does validation. It has no external dependencies.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sanatio'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install sanatio

Usage

One-time validation

If you only need a validation in a single place. You can use a block.

If your block evaluates to a falsey value, then the validation fails with the reason that is given.

With field level validation:

class Person
  include Sanatio

  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end

  attr_reader :name

  ensure_that(:name).is { !nil? }.reason = :not_nil
end

person = Person.new(nil)
error = person.errors.first
error.field # :name
error.reason # :not_nil
person.valid? # false

Or, with a class level validation:

class Person
  include Sanatio

  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end

  attr_reader :name

  ensure_that(self).is { !name.nil? }.reason = :name_not_nil
end

person = Person.new(nil)
error = person.errors.first
error.reason # :name_not_nil
person.valid? # false

Skipping validations

You can skip validations if they are not needed or if they cannot run.

class Person
  include Sanatio

  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end

  attr_reader :name

  # NilClass#empty? does not exist, so the validation will fail when the name is nil.
  ensure_that(:name).is { !empty? }.skip_if { nil? }.reason = :not_empty
end

Person.new(nil).valid? # true
Person.new("").valid? # false

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/sanatio/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request