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Thanks to everyone who responded to my first set of questions. Not only did I get my questions answered but I improved my code and learned a couple new things. I think I prefer the mailing list over IRC... easier to follow :-) I have some more questions if you don''t mind. Some are Rails related and some are Ruby related. 1) This is concerning displaying error messages. I am assuming

Folks, I''m trying to write a validating filter that checks if the user exists and renders XML if not. Most of the controllers will be returning XML on some error or other so I''m including RenderError in ApplicationController. Is my approach a sound one? Also, is there a shorter and more idiomatic way of writing this: if @user.nil? render_user_exists

I am trying to understand why model validation error reporting in Rails is so complicated compared to non ajax model validation. In my normal form I use <%= error_messages_for ''user'' %> in my view and I get a nice error message displayed when the user inputs invalid information into the form. When I convert that form to use Ajax using form_remote_tag the

Here is an example that seems perfect for Ajax that I have not seen implemented nor can figure out how to do it. I am hoping someone can give me some pointers. On the sign-up page, I would like to do my validations (password length, username uniqueness,etc ) Ajax-style. But if all validates, then redirect to the success page. The combining of redirection to a new page with Ajax is throwing me.