class NormalizedUniquenessValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator def validate_each(record, attribute, value) relation = if options.fetch(:case_sensitive, true) record.class.where("NORMALIZE(#{attribute}, NFKC) = NORMALIZE(?, NFKC)", value) else record.class.where("LOWER(NORMALIZE(#{attribute}, NFKC)) = LOWER(NORMALIZE(?, NFKC))", value) end relation = relation.where.not(record.class.primary_key => [record.id_in_database]) if record.persisted? if relation.exists? error_options = options.except(:case_sensitive) error_options[:value] = value record.errors.add(attribute, :taken, **error_options) end end end