Question

Ok I was writing some tests and I realized I could not possibly check the format of a password in rails in my model test. By format I mean a regex verifying that the password is at least 6 characters long etc. The reason I cannot do it is because I only store the secured hash of the password. Is this normal in most rails app? And is my only solution to check the password in my Integration tests?

Answer 1

In the model you can have

validates_format_of :password, :with => /^(?=.\d)(?=.([a-z]|[A-Z]))([\x20-\x7E]){6,40}$/

Should work.