Insufficient documentation for secure_validatable

[cameronbourgeois]

I just worked out how to configure email validation when using :secure_validatable

To disable email validation

config.email_validation = false

To specify options (Example is for rails_email_validator)

config.email_validation = { validate_mx: false, allow_idn: false }

If I find the time I will make a pull request.

[atstockland]

Is this the reason validation fails with "Email is invalid" if Im not online? If I'm not connected to the internet I can't run tests or update users due to email validation error---that led me here.

[cameronbourgeois]

Yep @atstockland the validate_mx feature does a DNS lookup to validate MX records.

[pmargreff]

@cameronbourgeois help me a lot, thanks.

[jaredready]

Adding onto this, it's not clear that email validation gets enabled by default. You need to explicitly disable if you don't want it, not just leave the config commented out.

[DBDeveloper87]

When I use config.email_validator = true and I try to run Rails, it returns an error of Unknown Email Validator. So for now I set it to false and can use the functionality of the rest of this module fine.

I did install the email_address gem, but I can't make heads or tails of how I am supposed to incorporate that into this devise-security gem. I see above for the other gem (which you state on the readme is actually deprecated so I haven't bothered with it), but what is the configuration for the email_address gem for config.email_validator?

[cameronbourgeois]

@DBDeveloper87 as far as I can tell the only email validation gem that is compatible is rails_email_validator, which is well passed it's use-by date judging by the lack of commits in the last 8 years.

TBH the devise_security_extension gem looks to have fallen out of maintenance too.

I'd recommend integrating the email_validator gem directly with your own models rather than through this gem.

UPDATE: I just realised you are probably using this active fork of the project. My bleak comments are regarding the original gem, not that fork which I wasn't aware existed. If I was you I'd look for help by posting an issue on that project :)

[atstockland]

These are the gems I have been using for some time... They are maintained and have given me no trouble.

gem 'valid_email', require: 'valid_email/validate_email' gem 'devise-security'

[Firebeam]

If it helps someone, this supposedly makes valid_email2 work correctly with devise-security: https://github.com/micke/valid_email2/issues/121