Rails - Mar 2005 - Setting My Own Errors

One last question, then I promise to be quiet for the rest of the 
night!  :)

I''ve added a Company field to ContactsController#new.  When the process
reaches ContactsController#create, I check to see if the Company 
already exists.  If it does, I want to send the process back to 
ContactsController#new with an error message that will be picked up by 
error_messages_for ''contact''.

My question is, how do I set my own error messages on an object?

Thanks again.

James Edward Gray II

Contact.errors.add(some_contact_field, ''some message'')

Go to http://api.rubyonrails.com
Look at ActiveRecord::Errors and ActiveRecord::Validations
This should send you on your way.



James Edward Gray II wrote:
> One last question, then I promise to be quiet for the rest of the 
> night!  :)
> 
> I''ve added a Company field to ContactsController#new.  When the
process
> reaches ContactsController#create, I check to see if the Company already 
> exists.  If it does, I want to send the process back to 
> ContactsController#new with an error message that will be picked up by 
> error_messages_for ''contact''.
> 
> My question is, how do I set my own error messages on an object?
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> James Edward Gray II
> 
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