class User < ActiveRecord::Base
# t.string "first_name"
# t.string "middle_names"
# t.string "last_name"
acts_as_human
end
Supplying first and last names separately:
user = User.new(first_name: 'Brent', last_name: 'Greeff')
You can then read the full_name
user.full_name
=> "Brent Greeff"
Supplying a full_name:
user = User.new(full_name: "Brent Wicked Middle Names Greeff")
You can then read the individual names:
user.first_name
=> "Brent"
user.last_name
=> "Greeff"
user.middle_names
=> "Wicked Middle Names"
Enable users to provide their full name in a single text input. Saves to 3 separate fields: first_name, middle_names and last_name allowing you to easily display their name in different formats in different places.
Validations limit each name field to 40 characters each, allowing a total length of 120 characters for the full name. Non-name like characters are invalid.
gem acts_as_human
- Adds
full_nameandfull_name=instance methods to a model.
Adds validations to ensure that the names are reasonable.
- Requires: first_name, last_name and middle_names columns in the database.
bundle exec acts_as_human migration users
Change "users" to the name of your existing table.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/acts_as_human.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.