Vivek Agarwal stauntonknight

stauntonknight / email_validator.rb

Created August 28, 2011 19:56 — forked from scudco/email_validator.rb

Rails 3 Email Validator

	class EmailValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator
	# http://fightingforalostcause.net/misc/2006/compare-email-regex.php
	# Thanks to James Watts and Francisco Jose Martin Moreno
	EMAIL_REGEX = /^([\w\!\#$\%\&\'\\+\-\/\=\?\^\`{\\|\}\~]+\.)[\w\!\#$\%\&\'\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`{\\|\}\~]+@((((([a-z0-9]{1}[a-z0-9\-]{0,62}[a-z0-9]{1})\|[a-z])\.)+[a-z]{2,6})\|(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}(\:\d{1,5})?)$/i

	def validate_each(object,attribute,value)
	if value.blank?
	object.errors[attribute] << (options[:message] \|\| "can't be blank") unless options[:allow_blank]
	elsif !(value =~ EMAIL_REGEX)
	object.errors[attribute] << (options[:message] \|\| "is not a valid email address")