Rails - Oct 2010 - Error messages for nested resource; guide says to use f.error_messages, but is deprecated/didn't work.

I''ve been trying to set up a new Rails 3 project as per
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html, but I''m running
into difficulty with displaying errors when adding a new comment. The
comments are a nested resource of posts. On the posts/show page, I
have

<%= form_for([@post, @post.comments.build]) do |f| %>
  <%= f.error_messages %>

  <div class="field">
    <%= f.label :commenter %><br />
    <%= f.text_field :commenter %>
  </div>
  <div class="field">
    <%= f.label :body %><br />
    <%= f.text_area :body %>
  </div>
  <div class="actions">
    <%= f.submit %>
  </div>
<% end %>

But the f.error_messages is deprecated. I''ve read online that one
solution is to use a partial and pass in the offending object as a
target to it, but I don''t know how to reference the comments object.
It would look something like

<%= form_for([@post, @post.comments.build]) do |f| %>
 <%= render"shared/error_messages", :target => @comment  %>
…
<% end %>

where @comment is the comment object. The examples online don''t show
how to do it when you pass an array to form_for. How can I get the
error messages to show up for new comments?

For reference, the CommentsController looks like:

class CommentsController < ApplicationController
  def create
    @post = Post.find(params[:post_id])
    @comment = @post.comments.create(params[:comment])
    redirect_to post_path(@post)
  end
end

and the Comment model looks like:

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :commenter, :presence => true
  validates :body, :presence => true
  belongs_to :post
end

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You want to set your comment variable in the controller:

def new
  @comment = @post.comments.build
end

so your form is

<%= form_for([@post, @comment]) do |f| %>
 <%= render"shared/error_messages", :target => @comment  %>
<% end %>


If you build the comment in the form (which you shouldn''t be doing
anyways if you''re sticking to MVC principles), then when you render the
form, a new comment object is always created.  Since it''s a new object,
it won''t have any errors.

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