Question

I want to prevent users from signing up with a password = login for security reasons. I tried something like this:

  validates_each :password do |record, attr, value|     if(value == self.login)       record.errors.add(attr)     end   end 

But I always get the following error: undefined method login for self. It has something to do with the class hierachy I guess, but how do I access a higher level.

I’m a little stuck here, please help.

Answer 1

Try

if value == record.login 

the record is passed into the block as the record local variable, and in this context is not self.