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validates_acceptance_of behavior in Rails 2.0

Posted 21 February 2008 @ 6pm | Tagged RubyOnRails

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I noticed that when upgrading to Rails 2.0, my validates_acceptance_of started failing (or rather, it started telling me that my field was not accepted when the param being passed was ’1′). Apparently I had to add the :accept => true to make it work. I discovered this by reading the Rails source, where it mentions that database columns will be converted to true/false so you must have this if you’re validating on a real database column


validates_acceptance_of :terms_of_service, :allow_nil => false, :accept => true


thanks, this worked great. Learning RoR from a book using 1.8.x as it’s basis is a bit challenging, but thanks to posts like this, I’m able to figure out what’s what.

Oh my. You just fixed two hours of confusion.

Thank you!