globalize-validations

Provides a uniqueness validator which can be used with globalize translated models.

Compatibility

Works with rails 3.1 and 3.2.

Rails 3.0 is not fully supported (case insensitive validation doesn't work).

The validator is based on the activerecord 3.2 uniqueness validator.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'globalize-validations'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install globalize-validations

Usage

Provides a GlobalizedUniquenessValidator which checks whether the value of the specified attributes are unique across the system.

See validates_uniqueness_of in ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods for further explanation. This validator basically works the same, but additionally respects globalize model translations. Also, you can use :locale when specifying the :scope option. This will scope the validation to the current locale.

For instance, if you want to validate that a product title is unique in each locale:

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  translates :title
  validates_globalized_uniqueness_of :title, :scope => :locale
end

Or:

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  translates :title
  validates :title, :globalized_uniqueness => {:scope => :locale}
end

Todo / Known Issues

• Doesn't work yet with rails 3.0 when case_sensitive is set to false
• Might not yet work correctly with serialized attributes which are translated (haven't tested that yet)

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request