Ether change "date" to "date_of_birth" or try  
    validates_presence_of :date, :message=> "Date of Birth is
required"
On 7/28/05, Alessandro Cauduro
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> How can I alter the error messages so that instead of the field name in the
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> in this case date = "Date of Birth" 
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> Alessandro 
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