Passing a falsey option value for a validator currently causes that validator to
be enabled, just like "true":
ActiveModel.validates :foo, :presence => false
This is rather counterintuitive, and makes it inconvenient to wrap `validates` in
methods which may conditionally enable different validators.
As an example, one is currently forced to write:
def has_slug(source_field, options={:unique => true})
slugger = Proc.new { |r| r[:slug] = self.class.sluggify(r[source_field]) if r[:slug].blank? }
before_validation slugger
validations = { :presence => true, :slug => true }
if options[:unique]
validations[:uniqueness] = true
end
validates :slug, validations
end
because the following reasonable-looking alternative fails to work as expected:
def has_slug(source_field, options={:unique => true})
slugger = Proc.new { |r| r[:slug] = self.class.sluggify(r[source_field]) if r[:slug].blank? }
before_validation slugger
validates :slug, :presence => true, :slug => true, :uniqueness => options[:unique]
end
(This commit includes a test, and all activemodel and activerecord tests pass as before.)
Reasons:
* Markdown reads well as plain text, but can also be formatted.
* It will make it easier for people to read on the web as Github
formats the Markdown nicely.
* It will encourage a level of consistency when people are writing
CHANGELOG entries.
The script used to perform the conversion is at
https://gist.github.com/1339263
