Notes posted by sjmadsen

Can be used with has_many associations

You can also use this to validate that a has_many association has a specified number of records on the other end:

has_many :members

validates_length_of :members, :minimum => 1

Testing HTTP Digest authentication

Testing HTTP Digest authentication is a bit tricky. I wrote a post describing how to accomplish it.

http://lightyearsoftware.com/blog/2009/04/testing-http-digest-authentication-in-rails/

Note also that Digest auth is broken for REST actions using PUT or DELETE. There is an open Lighthouse ticket for this, #2490:

rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2490-http-digest-auth-uses-wrong-request-method-for-put-delete

Reconfiguring the Rails cleaner

The Rails cleaner is available from the top-level Rails class:

Rails.backtrace_cleaner