Rails - Dec 2005 - Displaying errors for associated objects

I really like using error_messages_for in my views.  In one of my
views, I create a ticket object and a message object, and the message
belongs to the ticket.  When I do error_messages_for(:ticket), I''d
like to get any errors on the associated message.  Something like:

Two errors prevented this ticket from being saved.
There were problems with the following fields:
Subject can''t be blank    (this is a Ticket attribute)
Body can''t be blank        (this is a Message attribute)

A Ticket has_many :messages, so right now if the body is blank, I get
a message that says "Messages is invalid."  I was wondering if somehow
I could display the exact error message for the Message in the same
box as the error for the Ticket.

Thanks,
Pat

I really wish this was easy to do, I''ve never gotten it to work. Any 
thoughts anybody? Please follow up as I would love to know the solution.

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Pat Maddox wrote:
> I really like using error_messages_for in my views.  In one of my
> views, I create a ticket object and a message object, and the message
> belongs to the ticket.  When I do error_messages_for(:ticket), I''d
> like to get any errors on the associated message.  Something like:
> 
> Two errors prevented this ticket from being saved.
> There were problems with the following fields:
> Subject can''t be blank    (this is a Ticket attribute)
> Body can''t be blank        (this is a Message attribute)
> 
> A Ticket has_many :messages, so right now if the body is blank, I get
> a message that says "Messages is invalid."  I was wondering if
somehow
> I could display the exact error message for the Message in the same
> box as the error for the Ticket.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pat
A long shot, but check out

ticket.messages.last.errors

the message that was just added should still be there, just unasved due 
to a validation error.  In theory anyway.

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