Rails - Jun 2009 - testing error_messages rails 2.3

Quick question.

I''m kind of a novice to Rails and have been teaching myself using
RailsSpace which has examples based on an older version of Ruby/Rails.
I''ve been able to adapt them all but there was one question I had
regarding testing error_messages. I''ve noticed that the error_messages
in activeRecord have been changed due to internationalization.  Not only
that but in previous versions of Rails, the error message strings were
of the form

:too_short = "..(minimum is %d characters)"

Which made it easy to print with the correct value by using
sprintf(@error_messages[:too_short], 15)

But it seems that now they are of the form:
:too_short = "..(minimum is {{count}} characters)"

Which cannot be as simply processed.  They only way I''ve dealt with
this
is to use:

min_length = 15
@error_messages[:too_short]["{{count}}"] = "#{min_length}"

I''m wondering if there is, it seems like there would be, an easier way
of replacing the {{count}} portion of the error string.

Any help would be greatly appreciated on this.
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

If you''re manually formatting validation error messages,
you''re
probably working too hard. Take a look at the documentation for
ActiveRecord::Errors#generate_message to handle this.

--Matt Jones

On Jun 26, 5:56 pm, Arthur Mr
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Quick question.
>
> I''m kind of a novice to Rails and have been teaching myself using
> RailsSpace which has examples based on an older version of Ruby/Rails.
> I''ve been able to adapt them all but there was one question I had
> regarding testing error_messages. I''ve noticed that the
error_messages
> in activeRecord have been changed due to internationalization.  Not only
> that but in previous versions of Rails, the error message strings were
> of the form
>
> :too_short = "..(minimum is %d characters)"
>
> Which made it easy to print with the correct value by using
> sprintf(@error_messages[:too_short], 15)
>
> But it seems that now they are of the form:
> :too_short = "..(minimum is {{count}} characters)"
>
> Which cannot be as simply processed.  They only way I''ve dealt
with this
> is to use:
>
> min_length = 15
> @error_messages[:too_short]["{{count}}"] =
"#{min_length}"
>
> I''m wondering if there is, it seems like there would be, an easier
way
> of replacing the {{count}} portion of the error string.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated on this.
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.