Yeah, but in practice, you'd call @user.save, which internally calls #valid?, and returns true or false on whether the object was saved or not. If the object wasn't saved, @user.errors is populated with the error messages.
-- Eric On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Magnus Holm <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a little rusty on AR at the moment, but I think it looks something like > this: > In the controller: > if @user.valid? > # everything is fine > else > # ops! @user.errors contains the errors > end > //Magnus Holm > > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 19:43, David Susco <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Can ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods be used to provide >> feedback to the user? I noticed the tepee example uses >> "validates_uniqueness_of ". If the title isn't unique however nothing >> is written and the user is never notified. >> >> Does anyone have an example or two of how I could go about informing >> the user that the title they entered was not unique and they need to >> enter another? >> >> -- >> Dave >> _______________________________________________ >> Camping-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
