Ruby on Rails

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Jordon Bedwell <envygeeks@gmail.com> wrote:
> In Ruby a blank string is a null note a null bit so you need if you

That should say "In Ruby a blank is not a null bit."

> set :default => "" it will allow blank strings, which means your model
> needs to validate with :allow_blank => false or you need to set the
> ALLOW NULL 0 on the field by doing `:null => false` without the
> ":default => true".
>
> The preferable solution from both a security and a proper application
> standpoint is to do tell both the model and the db that it doesn't
> want null or blank strings because a db error should protect against
> manual entries and the model would be quicker when testing for blank
> strings, you can do that with "validates :field, :allow_blank =>
> false, allow_nil => false"

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