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...how the comments and a comment form. The comment model validates whether the user has entered his name. When he hasn''t, I want to send him back to the form with his comment text still there. In the comment/create action, I now have if @comment.save ... (no problem here) else flash[:commentnotice]="Comment could not be stored" redirect_to :back end The problem is that after the redirect, the user gets an empty comment form again and has lost his text. In Rails tutorials, they generally use render instead of a redirect in case of validation failure. That way the current conte...