Rails - Aug 2011 - Validation errors from associated models

Hey guys,

I have a weird problem and I think you are able to solve it easy.

I have two models - "Posts" and "Comments". A post :has_many
comments
and a comment :belongs_to a post. I followed the guide on
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#adding-a-second-model
so I added the following code to my Post-view:

    = form_for([@post, @post.comments.build]) do |f|
      = f.label :author
      = f.text_field :author
      = f.label :content
      = f.text_area :content
      = f.submit

I added some validation to my Comments-model, so it looks like:

    class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
      belongs_to :post
      validates_presence_of :author
    end

My comments-controller looks like:

    class CommentsController < ApplicationController
      def create
        @post = Post.find(params[:post_id])
        @comment = @post.comments.create(params[:comment])
        redirect_to @post
      end
    end

Creating new comments works fine, and if I leave "author" empty the
comment will not be saved. That''s good. But now I wanna show the
validation-errors. Normally I would do that with adding something like

    - if @comment.errors.any?
      - @comment.errors.full_messages.each do |error|
        = error

to the formular in the post-view, but of course @comment is undefine
in that view.

How can I show the errors there?

Regards,
Dennis

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