Ruby regex validation?

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In a Rails app, I have this current Regex validator below:

validates :characters, format: {with: /\A(([a-z0-9])+(-?[a-z0-9]+)*\s?)+\Z/, message: "can't be blank. Characters can only be [a-z 0-9 . # - +]" }

My validation for Characters initially only allowed lowercase letters and digits. Now I would like to allow for extra characters . # - + how do I structure my Regex now?

What exactly are you validating? Also, your regex matches an optional - as well as an optional space. — Achrome
– Achrome, Commented Aug 18, 2013 at 13:58

Sahil Dhankhar · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-18 14:11:05Z

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As per your question if you want to allow a-z , 0-9 and .#-+ only the regex for that would be:

/[a-z0-9.#+\-]/ and your validation will look something like this:

validates :characters, format: {with: /[a-z0-9.#+\-]/, message: "can't be blank. Characters can only be [a-z 0-9 . # - +]" }

you can even try that out at http://rubular.com/ . imho thats the best place to go for ruby regex.

answered Aug 18, 2013 at 14:11

Sahil Dhankhar

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Anshul Mengi Over a year ago

You can always use \d instead of 0-9.

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