jcnetdev-validates_as_email_address

= validates_as_email_address

+validates_as_email_address+ adds support for validating the format/length of email addresses.

== Resources

Wiki

• http://wiki.pluginaweek.org/Validates_as_email_address

API

• http://api.pluginaweek.org/validates_as_email_address

Development

• http://dev.pluginaweek.org/browser/trunk/validates_as_email_address

Source

• http://svn.pluginaweek.org/trunk/validates_as_email_address

== Description

Consistently reliable email address validations are difficult to find and hard to choose as there are far too many implementations in various programming languages. This plugins builds on Thijs van der Vossen's validates_as_email by adding advanced validation option support and also validating the length of the email address.

== Usage

=== Example

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base validates_as_email_address :email, :on => :create end

== Testing

Before you can run any tests, the following gem must be installed:

• plugin_test_helper[http://wiki.pluginaweek.org/Plugin_test_helper]

== References

• Cal Henderson - {Parsing Email Adresses in PHP}[http://iamcal.com/publish/articles/php/parsing_email]
• Tim Fletcher - {Ruby Translation}[http://tfletcher.com/lib/rfc822.rb]
• Dan Kubb[[e-mail]]
• Ximon Eighteen[[e-mail]]
• Thijs van der Vossen - validates_as_email[https://svn.greenpeace.org/repositories/rails_plugins/validates_as_email]