class Email < String
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  validates :email,
    :format => {
      :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"
    }

  # Make sure we can call Email.new(nil) and get an invalid email address
  def initialize(s)
    super(s.to_s)
  end

  def to_partial_path
    "emails/email"
  end

  def to_param
    to_s
  end

  def email
    self
  end

  def handle
    self.split('@').first
  end

end