Question

I have a rails model that validates uniqueness of 2 form values. If these 2 values aren’t unique the validation errors are shows and the ‘submit’ button is changed to ‘resubmit’. I want to allow a user to click the ‘resubmit’ button and bypass the model validation. I want to do something like this from the rails validation documentation:

validates_uniqueness_of :value, :unless => Proc.new { |user| user.signup_step <= 2 }

but I don’t have a a value in my model that I can check for…just the params that have the ‘Resubmit’ value.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Answer 1

In my opinion this is the best way to do it:

class FooBar < ActiveRecord::Base   validates_uniqueness_of :foo, :bar, :unless => :force_submit   attr_accessor :force_submit end 

then in your view, make sure you name the submit tag like

<%= submit_tag 'Resubmit', :name => 'foo_bar[force_submit]' %> 

this way, all the logic is in the model, controller code will stay the same.