Laravel Validation: check why validator failed

Question

If there a way to check whether or not the validator failed specifically because of the unique rule?

$rules = array(
            \'email_address\' =         


        

Answer 1

Check for a specific rule within the returned array of failed rules

if ($validator->fails()) {

    $failedRules = $validator->failed();

    if(isset($failedRules['email_address']['Unique'])) {

    ...