Validation before encryption? about strongbox HOT 3 CLOSED

"contact_number" is replaced by a Strongbox::Lock object to allow the encryption to function, which is why you can't call start_with on it

The default is for Strongbox to encrypt when the value is set. If you enable deferred encryption by adding :deferred_encryption => true to the encrypt_with_public_key configuration, then you should be able to validate with something like:

def validate_contact_number_format
   if contact_number.decrypt.start_with?('555')
      errors.add :contact_number, "Invalid Contact Number"
   end
end

If works because the deferred encryption setting means a password isn't required to decrypt until the record is saved.

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Thanks for the quick response Spike.

Took me a while to figure out what was going on but it looks like rubygems has version 0.7 which doesn't have this deferred_encryption option!

I'm pulling directly from this github page now and it's working great.

Thanks for all the work you've put into this!

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Ah, I forgot that there were a few more things I wanted to finish before releasing 0.8. I'll try to get it wrapped up in the next couple of weeks.

I'm glad it's of use!

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