New validator class introduced in lib directory is not recognised and throws error

Question

Unknown validator: 'email_format'

Rails.root: /home/saran/work_space/rails_apps/test_app Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace

app/models/user.rb:2 app/controllers/user_controller.rb:5:in `create'

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my user model file as below:-

class User < ActiveRecord::Base validates :email, :presence => true, :uniqueness => true, :email_format => true

end

my lib class introduced as below:-

:~/work_space/rails_apps/test_app/lib$ cat email_format_validator.rb class EmailFormatValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator
def validate_each(object, attribute, value)
unless value =~ /^([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+.)+[a-z]{2,})$/i
object.errors[attribute] << (options[:message] || "is not formatted properly")
end
end

end

Am using Rails version 3.0

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

See the answer in this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3685647/rails-3-does-not-see-my-rack-application-in-lib-directory