StupidSpaces

You know, that kind of user, that kind of user ...

"your app has a bug, if I put white spaces before and after the string, it saves to the database with the spaces",

"but why are you inserting those spaces if they aren't needed there?"

"just to test if is a well built system",

"don't you have anything more important to do?"

Then you call the user boss and say

"hey, you know that user wants I strip all the leading and trailing spaces from all the tables with string attributes just because he thinks it's important", and the boss

"I think he has a point there, please do it."

"Grrr. Stupid spaces (or perhaps, stupid user)."

So, unless we want to use a lot of before_save callbacks, we can use this gem here.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'stupid_spaces'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install stupid_spaces

Usage

Include the module inside the ActiveRecord model you want it to strip the spaces:

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
  include StupidSpaces
end

Ok, now all the string attributes of Person will be stripped. If you set a name like, say:

person = Person.first
person.name = '         Eustáquio Rangel              '
puts person.name
=> 'Eustáquio Rangel'

Notice that only the leading and trailing spaces are removed, not the spaces inside the string.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/taq/stupid_spaces.