Since local part of email is case sensitive, want to allow remote email addresses with uppercase letters in local part.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/users/app/models/email.rb b/users/app/models/email.rb
index f38f2f5..a9a503f 100644
--- a/users/app/models/email.rb
+++ b/users/app/models/email.rb
@@ -3,16 +3,10 @@ class Email < String
 
   validates :email,
     :format => {
-      :with => /\A([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-zA-Z0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,})\Z/, #checks format, but allows lowercase
+      :with => /\A([^@\s]+)@((?:[-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z]{2,})\Z/, #local part of email is case-sensitive, so allow uppercase letter.
       :message => "needs to be a valid email address"
     }
 
-  validates :email,
-    :format => {
-      :with => /\A[^A-Z]*\Z/, #forbids uppercase characters
-      :message => "letters must be lowercase"
-    }
-
   def to_partial_path
     "emails/email"
   end