Rails AR validates_uniqueness_of against polymorphic relationship
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Is it posible to validate the uniqueness of a child model's attribute scoped against a polymorphic relationship?
For example I have a model called field
that belongs to fieldable
:
class Field < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :fieldable, :polymorphic => :true
validates_uniqueness_of :name, :scope => :fieldable_id
end
I have several other models (Pages, Items) which have many Fields. So what I want is to validate the uniqueness of the field name against the parent model, but the problem is that occasionally a Page and an Item share the same ID number, causing the validations to fail when they shouldn't.
Am I just doing this wrong or is there a better way to do this?
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