I took the rules that I'd been using to validate my form and broke them out into a JSON object, hoping to use the same set of rules for client/server validation.

So, where I had:

$(document.getElementById('new_listing_form')).validate({
    rules: {
        apt: {
            required: true
        }
    }
});

I'm attempting to use:

var rules_obj = {
    apt: {
        required: true
    }
};
$(document.getElementById('new_listing_form')).validate({
    rules: rules_obj 
});

... and the form is not being validated.

Does anyone know if this is possible?