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[djberg96]

So, I'm doing RoR work again, and I'm hitting those annoying little issues that bugged me the first time around.

Today, it's the fact that I have to setup separate validations to handle nils/blanks. IMO I should be able to do this:

validates_numericality_of :elevation, :allow_nil => false

Now, this works. It validates that elevation is a number

Comments

You can use :allow_blank

[anonymous]

Try this

validates_numericality_of :elevation, :allow_blank => true

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

[anonymous]

How about:

validates_presence_of :elevation
validates_numericality_of :elevation, allow_blank => true

[djberg96]

Yeah, that'll work. Still feels a bit awkward, but it's definitely better. Thanks!