Rails - Nov 2005 - question about validate

Hi,

I have this class called Myfile (cause file is a reserved word), when a 
validation of a field in this class fails the error message shows: "1 
error prohibited this myfile from being saved", of course I just want it 
to say file instead of myfile. However... I don''t have a clue how to do
this.

Any ideas???

Thanks,
Mischa.

> I have this class called Myfile (cause file is a reserved word), when a 
> validation of a field in this class fails the error message shows: "1 
> error prohibited this myfile from being saved", of course I just want
it
> to say file instead of myfile.
OK, I''m getting around it like this now:

<% err = error_messages_for("myfile") %>
<% if err %>
<%= err.sub!("myfile", "file") %>
<% end %>

But there must be any another way. Help!

Grt,
Mischa

another (shorter) way:
<% err = ((a=error_messages_for("myfile")).nil? ? nil :
a.sub("myfile", "file")) %>

better yet, you could create a new function in a helper to perform the
transform:

def myfile2file(s)
	return if s.blank?
	s.sub "myfile", "file"
end

<% err = myfile2file(error_messages_for("myfile")) %>



Mischa Berger wrote:
>> I have this class called Myfile (cause file is a reserved word), when 
>> a validation of a field in this class fails the error message shows: 
>> "1 error prohibited this myfile from being saved", of course
I just
>> want it to say file instead of myfile.
> 
> 
> OK, I''m getting around it like this now:
> 
> <% err = error_messages_for("myfile") %>
> <% if err %>
> <%= err.sub!("myfile", "file") %>
> <% end %>
> 
> But there must be any another way. Help!
> 
> Grt,
> Mischa

> def myfile2file(s)
>     return if s.blank?
>     s.sub "myfile", "file"
> end
> 
> <% err = myfile2file(error_messages_for("myfile")) %>
Thanks. Why didn''t think of that myself? In the end I implemented it 
like this:

def myfile_to_file(msg)
   msg.sub("myfile", "file") if msg
end

<%= myfile_to_file(error_messages_for("myfile")) %>