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Indeed. Only Lower case letters (a-z), numbers and dashes are allowed.

validates_format_of :identifier, :with => /^[a-z0-9\-]*$/

Guys,

First off apologies for posting such a time wasting bug - clearly not only did I not RTFM but not even the page itself. But then I got to thinking - I am no newbie,I run a software business with 24 employees and yet I not only misunderstood the meaning of this help text, but went to the trouble of joining your issue tracker so I could report it! On the one hand pretty dumb, but perhaps on the other this is a mistake that others will make?
With that in mind I looked at the sentence again, and what it says is 100% correct "Lower case letters (a-z), numbers and dashes allowed". However what I thought (subconsciously of course) was implied was that is was_ in addition to uppercase letters_, since there are almost no situations where uppercase letters are not permitted.

Indeed the restriction that upper case letters are not permitted is so unusual that I would suggest you consider one of these two changes:

1. Explicitly mention that upper case letters may not be used
2. convert the string to lower case on entry and mention that the string is "case insensitive" like a username << My preferred option.

Anyway apologies for reopening this minor issue. If you close it again I promise not to argue!

rgds
Ewan

Indeed the restriction that upper case letters are not permitted is so unusual that I would suggest you consider one of these two changes:

1. Explicitly mention that upper case letters may not be used
2. convert the string to lower case on entry and mention that the string is "case insensitive" like a username << My preferred option.

We can maybe rewrite label to : Only lower case letters (a-z), numbers and dashes are allowed
I dont like conversion as proposed because of the possible collisions that a user would not understand.
Jean-Philippe, I don't think you need a patch for that, and as I don't have any repository access (yet ? :) I can't do that. So you are the assignee again ! :)

As Paul proposed, the help message was changed in r1763.

since there are almost no situations where uppercase letters are not permitted.

Did you try to register a project on sourceforge ? :-)