Rails - Oct 2006 - Beginner's question: how to format data model error messages

Studying "Agile Web Development" I stumbled over the validation method
for a database field in the data model. The (german) error message 
should contain diacritical characters which have to be html-escaped. I 
tried this:

 errors.add( :price, h(" muss grösser 0 sein" )) if ((price.nil?) || 
(price < 0.01))

which leads to the error message

  undefined method `h''

Two questions:
1) How do I get the function h to work in the database model?
2) Is this the correct place to do it? Wouldn''t the formatting of the 
error message rather have to be located in a view?

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Sascha Mantscheff wrote:
> Two questions:
> 1) How do I get the function h to work in the database model?
You shouldn''t want to, although I believe it''s possible.
> 2) Is this the correct place to do it? Wouldn''t the formatting of
the
> error message rather have to be located in a view?
Yes, in this case it''s best to leave the string formatted as a native
Ruby string and do the HTML-izing in your view/helpers.


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