Demonstrate validation of arbitrary fields (e.g., hstore)

validator.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter  => 'sqlite3',
  :database => ':memory:'
)

ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
  create_table :documents, :force => true do |t|
  end
end

module HstoreValidation
  def validates_hstore(field, &block)
    validation_class = Class.new do
      include ActiveModel::Validations

      def self.name
        '(validations)'
      end

      def initialize(data)
        @data = data
      end

      def read_attribute_for_validation(attr_name)
        @data[attr_name]
      end
    end
    validation_class.class_eval &block

    validate do
      validator = validation_class.new(self[field])

      if validator.invalid?
        validator.errors.each do |attr, text|
          self.errors.add(attr, text)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

class Document < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend HstoreValidation

  validates_hstore :data do
    validates_length_of :title, :maximum => 50
  end
end

d = Document.new
d[:data] = {title: 'abc' * 51}

p d.valid?
p d.errors

d[:data][:title] = 'shorter title'

p d.valid?
p d.errors

by the time, Rails does not have anything built in to validate hstore fields?

For most use cases, it would be better now to use store_accessor and just write normal validations.

This seems to no longer work on Rails 4.1 ;-(

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25783538/rails-4-1-validation-of-arbitrary-fields-via-hstore/