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Don't enable validations when passing false hash values to ActiveModel.validates
Passing a falsey option value for a validator currently causes that validator to be enabled, just like "true": ActiveModel.validates :foo, :presence => false This is rather counterintuitive, and makes it inconvenient to wrap `validates` in methods which may conditionally enable different validators. As an example, one is currently forced to write: def has_slug(source_field, options={:unique => true}) slugger = Proc.new { |r| r[:slug] = self.class.sluggify(r[source_field]) if r[:slug].blank? } before_validation slugger validations = { :presence => true, :slug => true } if options[:unique] validations[:uniqueness] = true end validates :slug, validations end because the following reasonable-looking alternative fails to work as expected: def has_slug(source_field, options={:unique => true}) slugger = Proc.new { |r| r[:slug] = self.class.sluggify(r[source_field]) if r[:slug].blank? } before_validation slugger validates :slug, :presence => true, :slug => true, :uniqueness => options[:unique] end (This commit includes a test, and all activemodel and activerecord tests pass as before.)
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activemodel/CHANGELOG.md

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## Rails 4.0.0 (unreleased) ##
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* Passing false hash values to `validates` will no longer enable the corresponding validators *Steve Purcell*
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* `ConfirmationValidator` error messages will attach to `:#{attribute}_confirmation` instead of `attribute` *Brian Cardarella*
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* Added ActiveModel::Model, a mixin to make Ruby objects work with AP out of box *Guillermo Iguaran*

activemodel/lib/active_model/validations/validates.rb

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defaults.merge!(:attributes => attributes)
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validations.each do |key, options|
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next unless options
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key = "#{key.to_s.camelize}Validator"
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begin

activemodel/test/cases/validations_test.rb

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def test_validates_with_false_hash_value
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Topic.validates :title, :presence => false
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assert Topic.new.valid?
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end
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def test_strict_validation_error_message
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Topic.validates :title, :strict => true, :presence => true
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