ruby form validation and generation class?

[skeeterbug]

do any good ones exist? i will miss my php forms class that validates my form input (js and server), allows easy regex checking, allows linked selects, allows basic js (eg, background color) and a lot more.

does ruby have anything similar?

the license is important, too. i think i'm looking for something bsd or lgpl.

it will go into a commercial product, if all goes well.

[XMG-Eric]

Rails offers some incredible validation methods. To take full advantage, i'd recommend picing up "Agile Development with Rails". There are several methods that you can work with for validation.

[Luke Redpath]

Rails doesn't come with anything to handle client-side validation, but server-side validation is handled by your model validation and as Eric says Rails has a lot of great built-in validation macros which makes most validation tasks a breeze.

[vgarcia]

Rails has extremely easy server-side validation (validates_presence_of, validates_format_of, validates_length_of, etc.) that allow for checking of all kinds of criteria.

As for client-side validation, I just built a FormValidator object based on the included prototype.js framework, but I hardly ever use it.

[skeeterbug]

well, i guess it is time to jump right in then!

i won't know if there are any big problems unless i try.

thanks for the information. i look forward to putting my rubies on rails.