https://nicholasshirley.com/categories/ActiveRecord/Recent content in ActiveRecord on Nicholas ShirleyHugoen-usThu, 09 May 2019 09:04:42 +0000https://nicholasshirley.com/verify-that-an-activerecord-object-has-at-least-one-attribute/Thu, 09 May 2019 09:04:42 +0000https://nicholasshirley.com/verify-that-an-activerecord-object-has-at-least-one-attribute/<p>Rails ActiveRecord callbacks make validation a breeze, but what happens if you want to verify that a record has at least one attribute present, but you don&rsquo;t care which attribute it is? This was a recent case I was working on for a client who was having their operators fill in a form with a lot of uncertainty. They couldn&rsquo;t know which record would be needed, but we didn&rsquo;t want to allow all records to be blank.</p>