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What are the limitations on using: errors.add_to_base to display errors in views? I have tried for days to add errors from my object.rb and they never get displayed. class Keyword < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of(:name, :message => "Name is required.") validates_uniqueness_of(:name, :message => "This name is already in use. Please try

Hi, i am using the default validation of RoR how i will customize them i dont want to display the default message but i want to print the message i want like for city_id the default message is "City can''t be blank" i want this message as "Please enter city" Regards -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

Hi all I''ve approached Rails since a couple of months to develop a quick application for my company. Fantastic framework. As every noob, I do have some gaps to cover. The one which is giving me a little frustration, generated by my lack of knowledge is as follows. I need to make sure the region object is not deleted if there are countries associated with it. I solved this by putting a

I have the following code and I am not able to get it working. The error message is not coming on the top, it is just getting displayed on a different page if I dont have the rescue block commented at the bottom. Model: user.rb require "digest/sha1" class User < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :eaddress, :fname, :passwd, :pcode, :country, :day, :year, :month, :gender,

Please help, I am really at a loss at how validation is supposed to work in rails. Model contains acts_as_tree I want to force my NEW objects to have a parent I do NOT want existing object to have a parent so I only want to have parent_id on create, NOT on update. I am trying this: def validate_on_create validates_presence_of :parent_id, :message => "You must specify a

Does anyone how to create a validation that: validates_presence_of :a OR :b I.e. :a OR :b must be present. I thought this would probably be possible with some kind of validation callback, e.g.: def check_a_or_b_is_set return (a or b) end Any ideas? Thanks, Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi all I have the following model: class PhotoGallery < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :title, :description, :file_path, :title_photo_id has_many :photos, :dependent => :destroy belongs_to :title_photo, :class_name => ''Photo'', :foreign_key => ''title_photo_id'' validates_presence_of :title, :description, :file_path

Hi All, View ******** <tr> <td><b>Student: </b></td> <td><%= text_field "student", "fname", "size" => 40, "maxlength" => 40 %></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Program: </b></td> <td><select id="student_program_id"

Here''s a snippet of my model: validates_presence_of :from_name, :from_email, :reply_name, :reply_email, :eSubject protected def validate puts "Calling: #{target_list_ids}" errors.add_to_base("You must choose at least one target list for this job") if self.target_list_ids.nil? end It appears that the validates_presence_of are being called just fine,

Le''s say that I have a table called people and the column middle_name is nullable. If the user enters say blank or empty space then in the database it is recorded as empty space. I would like in all my models all empty spaces to be recorded as null. I guess I can write a plugin which will do so for all the models but I''m sure something like that should already be existing.I

Hi, I installed login generator using gem. It''s installed and it''s working fine. I wanted to browse the source code of login generator installed by gem. I couldn''t find the source code anywhere. Thanks. -=- Neeraj _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org

In the ''basecamp'' product from 37signals if I search for ''ruby'' the I get a bunch of results. In the search result page the search term (ruby in this case) is highlighted. I was wondering how to accomplish the same. How to highlight the ''search term'' in the search result? Is there any already existing utility that I could use? Thanks.

I intend to override pagination_links method. I added following lines of code in application_helper.rb module ActionView module Helpers def pagination_links(paginator, options={}, html_options={}) raise("boom!!") end end end But my code is not executing my code. The view is still using the method pagination_links from rails. What''s the correct way to override

Is there a way to set the base class to abstract? or otherwise enforce that no one can create a "Pet"? Pet < ActiveRecord Dog < Pet Pig < Pet I''ve tried: class Pet < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :type end but I get an error about ../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb:74: warning: Object#type is deprecated; use Object#class

I want to add a custom validator in one of Model. For example Rails has inbuilt validation methods like validates_uniqueness_of, validates_presence_of . What I need is a similar kind of method (example: validates_line_items), that can run my custom code while saving, updating the record and can add custom error messages to the record. Please help me by suggesting how i can do this. -- Posted via

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :venue belongs_to :category end class Venue < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :city end class City < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :state end I want to retrieve all event records belonging to a state. Coming from hibernate background I tried something like this: def self.list_for_a_state(state_id) find_by_sql(["select e.*

I have following line in route.rb #event info for an event name map.connect ''event/:name_url'',:controller => ''home'',:action => ''event_info'' It causes a URL like http://localhost:3000/event/_jewels_exhibition_ to be sent to the home controller with action as ''event_info''. I am trying to test this action. My first

I have a wizard which consists of two pages. To keep it simple let''s say that the first page asks the user to select a state from the drop down menu. In case the user doesn''t select any state, an error message needs to be displayed. Ideally I would like to do something like this. def new selected_value = params[:addevent][:state_id] if selected_value == "-1"

in testing my app I just use the validations validates_presence_of :first_name, :last_name, :email validates_presence_of :academy, :message => "You must select an Academy" validates_presence_of :role, :message => "You must select a role" standard error_messages are fine for most of my fields , resulting in : 5 errors prohibited this data from being saved There

On a model I have the following simple validator: def validate unless name && name =~ /^\w+$/ errors.add_to_base("Name is missing") end end I would like to display a custom message on my views, without using the helper <%= error_messages_for "table" %> Where the messages from errors.add_to_base are stored and how to access them in the views? --