Controlling the order of rails validations

Question

I have a rails model which has 7 numeric attributes filled in by the user via a form.

I need to validate the presence of each of these attributes which is obviously

Answer 1

The James H solution makes the most sense to me. One extra thing to consider however, is that if you have conditions on the dependent validations, they need to be checked also in order for the dependent_attributes_valid? call to work.

ie.

    validates :attribute1, presence: true
    validates :attribute1, uniqueness: true, if: :attribute1?
    validates :attribute1, numericality: true, unless: Proc.new {|r| r.attribute1.index("@") }
    validates :attribute2, presence: true
    ...
    validates :attribute7, presence: true

    validate :calculations_ok?, unless: Proc.new { |a| a.dependent_attributes_valid? }

    def dependent_attributes_valid?
      [:attribute1, ..., :attribute7].each do |field|
        self.class.validators_on(field).each do |v|
          # Surely there is a better way with rails?
          existing_error = v.attributes.select{|a| self.errors[a].present? }.present?

          if_condition = v.options[:if]
          validation_if_condition_passes = if_condition.blank?
          validation_if_condition_passes ||= if_condition.class == Proc ? if_condition.call(self) : !!self.send(if_condition)

          unless_condition = v.options[:unless]
          validation_unless_condition_passes = unless_condition.blank?
          validation_unless_condition_passes ||= unless_condition.class == Proc ? unless_condition.call(self) : !!self.send(unless_condition)

          if !existing_error and validation_if_condition_passes and validation_unless_condition_passes
            v.validate(self)
          end
        end
        return false if self.errors.messages[field].present?
      end
      return true
    end