my rails word count patch committed!

July 4th, 2008
Posted by David Lowenfels
Filed in:
rails,patch,validations

Last year we had a project that needed to validate word count on a model attribute, and I extended ActiveRecord::Validations#validates_length_of to include an option to count words. After some back and forth with the rails core team, I ended up with this patch, which was committed into the rails github repo. w00t! :)

PS: some HOWTOs about patching rails here and here.

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