Hi Chris,

I really enjoyed your post.

Would it be possible please to show how I would integrate these validations with a mailer and the respective views. I am developing a special inquiry form that requires a number of fields to be validated before the result of the form is emailed.

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards

Walter

However, you should also look at a plugin called activerecord_base_without_table.

It allows you to define models that do not save into the database. I found this solution worked better for me because you end up with objects that are a little more compatible with the rest of the rails world. For example, I wanted to use the ‘human_attribute_override’ plugin for prettier error messages. This also solves Billy’s problem above where he wanted to write custom validations. And it’s a plugin rather than a gem, so it should make WN happy.

The plugin is remarkably short and sweet (only 26 lines long). However, sadly the author has not upgraded it to be compatible with rails 2. If you’re using rails 2, you need to edit one line: The call to readmethods on line 21 must be changed to generated_methods.

Good luck, and I hope this helps!

Here is the URL for the plugin:

http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/activerecord_base_without_table