Rails - May 2006 - Custom error messages

On a model I have the following simple validator:

def validate
  unless name && name =~ /^\w+$/
    errors.add_to_base("Name is missing")
  end
end

I would like to display a custom message on my views, without using the 
helper <%= error_messages_for "table" %>

Where the messages from errors.add_to_base are stored and how to access 
them in the views?


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Fernando,
> Where the messages from errors.add_to_base are stored and how to access
> them in the views?
ActiveRecord stores them in an array. There are several ways you can
get to these for example object.errors.full_messages will return an
array of the full error messages. You may also want to read the
following page from the API
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Errors.html

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Joe Clarke
RailsPlayground.com

On 5/1/06, Fernando Macedo <fxmk@terra.com.br>
wrote:
> On a model I have the following simple validator:
>
> def validate
>   unless name && name =~ /^\w+$/
>     errors.add_to_base("Name is missing")
>   end
> end
>
> I would like to display a custom message on my views, without using the
> helper <%= error_messages_for "table" %>
>
> Where the messages from errors.add_to_base are stored and how to access
> them in the views?
>
>
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