Question

I am trying to validate an email address user has entered. I’ve done the validation in model but its not working. I have used the following in model…

class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :department
  validates_presence_of :emp_name_official
  validates_presence_of :emp_name_full
  validates_format_of :emp_email_personal, :with=>/^([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})$/i, :message=>"Not a valid email format"
end

I am using version 2.0.2 of rails.

And it works fine when I comment the validation line in my model. And also works fine when I give correct email address.

Can anyone tell where I am going wrong.

Following is the error page.

Answer 1

Try this

  EmailRegex = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i

  validates_format_of :email, :with => EmailRegex