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validates_as_email
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This gem/plugin is a re-packaged and gem'ified version of the original plugin with credit as follows:
Ximon Eighteen ximon.eighteen@int.greenpeace.org Dan Kubb dan.kubb@autopilotmarketing.com Thijs van der Vossen thijs@fngtps.com
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
gem sources -a http://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 => 'http://gems.github.com'
In your model file do something like:
class MyClass < ActiveRecord::Base validates_as_emaile :email, :message => 'Invalid Email Address', :allow_nil => true end
Some tests have been added.
See the LICENSE file.
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We found that validates_as_email demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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