rails 3 validations uniqueness on attributes of an association - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

i have a model called Fund and a model called Company .. where fund belongs_to a company.
i have this validation in my Fund table:
validates :name, presence: true, uniqueness: true
This works both on server side and client side using client_side_validations. But i want my fund names to be unique across both fund.name values and fund.company.name values. And i want to do it in a way it would work with client_side_validations too.
Suggestions?

Answer 1

Ended up creating a very specific validator and adding it to client-side-validation. Here'z the breakdown
In models/fund.rb
validates_fund_name_not_company_name :name
new file in config/initializers/validators .. called fund_name_not_company_name_validator.rb
class FundNameNotCompanyNameValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator
def validate_each(record, attr_name, value)
if ::Company.exists?(name: value)
record.errors.add(attr_name, :fund_name_not_company_name, options.merge(:value => value))
end
end
end
# This allows us to assign the validator in the model
module ActiveModel::Validations::HelperMethods
def validates_fund_name_not_company_name(*attr_names)
validates_with FundNameNotCompanyNameValidator, _merge_attributes(attr_names)
end
end
module ClientSideValidations::Middleware
class FundNameNotCompanyName < ClientSideValidations::Middleware::Base
def response
if ::Company.exists?(name: request.params[:name])
self.status = 404
else
self.status = 200
end
super
end
end
end
then in app/assets/javascripts/rails.validations.custom.js
clientSideValidations.validators.remote['fund_name_not_company_name'] = function(element, options) {
if ($.ajax({
url: '/validators/fund_name_not_company_name',
data: { name: element.val() },
// async must be false
async: false
}).status == 404) { return options.message; }
}
This helped a great deal