Correct Format Plugin Released
I have released a new Plugin for Rails, called Correct-Format.
Github URL: github.com/mendable/correct-format
This plugin allows you to automatically correct simple user input mistakes and format user-input without raising an ActiveRecord Error and without inserting inconsistently formatted data into your database. Using this plugin will enhance the usability and user-friendlyness of your application and increase your data integrity.
You can automatically:
- Make a field uppercase
- Make a field lowercase
- Capitalize the first letter of the first word (and lower case everything else)
- Capitalize the first letter of all words (and lower case everything else)
- Replace comma with period and downcase email addresses
Installation
$ git submodule add git://github.com/mendable/correct-format.git vendor/plugins/correct-format
$ git commit -am "add correct-format plugin"
Ensure that you have this in your config/deploy.rb:
set :git_enable_submodules, true
so that the submodules are pulled down when you deploy your application.
Example Usage
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
# Make usernames consistently lower case
correct_format_downcase :username
# Replace comma's with periods in email address, and make email address all lower case
correct_format_email :email
# Capitalize first letter of first word, and downcase the rest
correct_format_capitalize :username
# Capitalize all first letters of ALL WORDS in the string
correct_format_capitalize_each :address_line_1, :address_line_2
# UK Postcodes are upper case
correct_format_upcase :postcode
# apply a function to EVERY string field in a record
correct_format_capitalize self.attributes.select{|k, v| self.column_for_attribute(k).type == :string }.map(&:first)
end
Feedback and patches welcome.
