Rails 7: Strange Behavior with ActiveRecord Callbacks in Custom Validations
I'm having a hard time understanding Quick question that's been bugging me - I'm working with an scenario with ActiveRecord callbacks while trying to implement custom validations in my Rails 7 application. I have a model `User` with a custom validation method that checks if the user’s email address is from a specific domain. I need to ensure this validation runs before the default validations, but the behavior seems inconsistent. Occasionally, the behavior message doesn’t appear even when the email is invalid. Here is my model code: ```ruby class User < ApplicationRecord validate :email_domain_validation, on: :create def email_domain_validation unless email.ends_with?('@example.com') errors.add(:email, 'must be from the example.com domain') end end end ``` I've tried to use `before_validation` instead of `validate`, thinking that might help, but it didn't change the behavior. Additionally, I’ve checked the order of my validations, and it seems like the custom validation might be getting skipped under certain conditions. I also have another validation that checks for the presence of the email, but I want to ensure that my domain validation runs first. With the current setup, I get intermittent results where the presence validation might cause a failure and prevent the domain validation from running, but I expect both to run sequentially. The console logs show the following: ``` User Create behavior: Email must be from the example.com domain ``` However, in some cases, this behavior does not show up when it clearly should. I’m using Rails 7.0.4.2 and Ruby 3.1.0. Any advice on how to ensure that my custom validation works consistently would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! What would be the recommended way to handle this?