Rails - Apr 2006 - How to supress field name in error message?

Hi

How do I supress the reporting of a field name in the full error
message? I want the error to be associated with the field so that the
.fieldWithErrors class is applied to the field but I don''t want it to
add the field name to the actual error message.

For example:

  errors.add("occurs_on", "The date can''t be
today!") unless occurs_on
!= Date.today

I would like the error to read:

  The date can''t be today!

Rather than:

  Occurs on The date can''t be today!

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks in advance
Dave

On 4/22/06, Dave Verwer <dave@dvhome.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> How do I supress the reporting of a field name in the full error
> message? I want the error to be associated with the field so that the
> .fieldWithErrors class is applied to the field but I don''t want it
to
> add the field name to the actual error message.
>
> For example:
>
>   errors.add("occurs_on", "The date can''t be
today!") unless occurs_on
> != Date.today
>
> I would like the error to read:
>
>   The date can''t be today!
>
> Rather than:
>
>   Occurs on The date can''t be today!
>
> Is there any way to do this?
>
If you don''t care about the highlighting part, you can use
errors.add_to_base.
Otherwise, you may want to check this out:
http://www.railtie.net/articles/2006/01/26/enhancing_rails_errors

Thanks Wilson

I do want to keep it specific to the fields so that they highlight,
the link mentioned in the article you referenced:
  http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Custom+Error+Message

This seems like about the solution I was looking for, however I am not
sure how to install it? It comes with an init.rb file and a lib folder
with one rb file in it. I have put the init.rb in my project root and
the other file into my lib folder but it doesnt seem to override the
class.

Anyone any ideas?


On 4/22/06, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 4/22/06, Dave Verwer <dave@dvhome.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > How do I supress the reporting of a field name in the full error
> > message? I want the error to be associated with the field so that the
> > .fieldWithErrors class is applied to the field but I don''t
want it to
> > add the field name to the actual error message.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> >   errors.add("occurs_on", "The date can''t be
today!") unless occurs_on
> > != Date.today
> >
> > I would like the error to read:
> >
> >   The date can''t be today!
> >
> > Rather than:
> >
> >   Occurs on The date can''t be today!
> >
> > Is there any way to do this?
> >
>
> If you don''t care about the highlighting part, you can use
errors.add_to_base.
> Otherwise, you may want to check this out:
> http://www.railtie.net/articles/2006/01/26/enhancing_rails_errors
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
>

That''s a Rails ''plugin'', so you need to extract it
into the
vendor/plugins/ folder under your Rails project root.
There are some brief instructions at the bottom of the page:
http://www.railtie.net/articles/2006/01/26/enhancing_rails_errors

On 4/23/06, Dave Verwer <dave@dvhome.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks Wilson
>
> I do want to keep it specific to the fields so that they highlight,
> the link mentioned in the article you referenced:
>   http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Custom+Error+Message
>
> This seems like about the solution I was looking for, however I am not
> sure how to install it? It comes with an init.rb file and a lib folder
> with one rb file in it. I have put the init.rb in my project root and
> the other file into my lib folder but it doesnt seem to override the
> class.
>
> Anyone any ideas?
>
>
> On 4/22/06, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/22/06, Dave Verwer <dave@dvhome.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > How do I supress the reporting of a field name in the full error
> > > message? I want the error to be associated with the field so that
the
> > > .fieldWithErrors class is applied to the field but I
don''t want it to
> > > add the field name to the actual error message.
> > >
> > > For example:
> > >
> > >   errors.add("occurs_on", "The date can''t
be today!") unless occurs_on
> > > != Date.today
> > >
> > > I would like the error to read:
> > >
> > >   The date can''t be today!
> > >
> > > Rather than:
> > >
> > >   Occurs on The date can''t be today!
> > >
> > > Is there any way to do this?
> > >
> >
> > If you don''t care about the highlighting part, you can use
errors.add_to_base.
> > Otherwise, you may want to check this out:
> > http://www.railtie.net/articles/2006/01/26/enhancing_rails_errors
> > _______________________________________________

Thanks Wilson, that works.

Dave

On 4/23/06, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com>
wrote:
> That''s a Rails ''plugin'', so you need to extract
it into the
> vendor/plugins/ folder under your Rails project root.
> There are some brief instructions at the bottom of the page:
> http://www.railtie.net/articles/2006/01/26/enhancing_rails_errors
>
> On 4/23/06, Dave Verwer <dave@dvhome.co.uk> wrote:
> > Thanks Wilson
> >
> > I do want to keep it specific to the fields so that they highlight,
> > the link mentioned in the article you referenced:
> >   http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Custom+Error+Message
> >
> > This seems like about the solution I was looking for, however I am not
> > sure how to install it? It comes with an init.rb file and a lib folder
> > with one rb file in it. I have put the init.rb in my project root and
> > the other file into my lib folder but it doesnt seem to override the
> > class.
> >
> > Anyone any ideas?
> >
> >
> > On 4/22/06, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 4/22/06, Dave Verwer <dave@dvhome.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > How do I supress the reporting of a field name in the full
error
> > > > message? I want the error to be associated with the field so
that the
> > > > .fieldWithErrors class is applied to the field but I
don''t want it to
> > > > add the field name to the actual error message.
> > > >
> > > > For example:
> > > >
> > > >   errors.add("occurs_on", "The date
can''t be today!") unless occurs_on
> > > > != Date.today
> > > >
> > > > I would like the error to read:
> > > >
> > > >   The date can''t be today!
> > > >
> > > > Rather than:
> > > >
> > > >   Occurs on The date can''t be today!
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to do this?
> > > >
> > >
> > > If you don''t care about the highlighting part, you can
use errors.add_to_base.
> > > Otherwise, you may want to check this out:
> > > http://www.railtie.net/articles/2006/01/26/enhancing_rails_errors
> > > _______________________________________________
> _______________________________________________
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>