Using gsub to add to a phone number

Asked May 09 '18 at 16:20

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I am trying to save a client’s phone number to the DB and make it E.164 compliant so we can send them an SMS. We were using a gem to do this, but the powers that be decided they don’t want to do it that way anymore. I am trying to accomplish this using a before_validation and a model method. I have pasted them below, but can’t seem to figure out how to add a +1 that is required. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

listing_collection.rb

before_validation :format_phone

def format_phone
  self.client_phone = client_phone.gsub(/\D/, '')
end

edited May 09 '18 at 16:31

tadman

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asked May 09 '18 at 16:20

Mike Wiesenhart

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The string `"+1"+...`...? What am I missing here? – tadman May 09 '18 at 16:22
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You are missing the fact that I was likely trying to overcomplicate things. Haha. – Mike Wiesenhart May 09 '18 at 16:23
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Happens to the best of us. You may want to make a phone number "canonicizer" concern (module) that handles all sorts of broken and garbage data, as that way you can write tests for that method specifically. – tadman May 09 '18 at 16:24
`phone_number.prepend "+1"` ? – iGian May 09 '18 at 16:46
Possible duplicate of [String concatenation in Ruby](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/377768/string-concatenation-in-ruby) – Wiktor Stribiżew May 27 '18 at 22:33

Using gsub to add to a phone number

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