ruby on rails - How would one validate the format of an email field in ActiveRecord?

Question

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13784845/how-would-one-validate-the-format-of-an-email-field-in-activerecord

Answer 1

Add in your gemfile:

gem 'validates_email_format_of'

and in your model:

validates :email, email_format: { message: "doesn't look like an email address" }

Or if you don't want use a gem, use regex:

validates_format_of :email, :with => /A([^@s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+.)+[a-z]{2,})z/i