ActiveRecord::JSONValidator

ActiveRecord::JSONValidator makes it easy to validate JSON attributes against a JSON schema.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'activerecord_json_validator'

Usage

JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-03/schema",
  "properties": {
    "city": { "type": "string", "required": false },
    "country": { "type": "string", "required": true }
  }
}

Ruby

create_table "users" do |t|
  t.string "name"
  t.json "profile" # First-class JSON with PostgreSQL, yo.
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Constants
  PROFILE_JSON_SCHEMA = Rails.root.join('config', 'schemas', 'profile.json_schema')

  # Validations
  validates :name, presence: true
  validates :profile, presence: true, json: { schema: PROFILE_JSON_SCHEMA }
end

user = User.new(name: 'Samuel Garneau', profile: { city: 'Quebec City' })
user.valid? # => false

user = User.new(name: 'Samuel Garneau', profile: { city: 'Quebec City', country: 'Canada' })
user.valid? # => true

License

ActiveRecord::JSONValidator is © 2013 Mirego and may be freely distributed under the New BSD license. See the LICENSE.md file.

About Mirego

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