Chris,

Never did it myself but you could maybe write your own form builder.
Have a look at the code in merb-helpers to see how stuff's done
currently and where you can extend it.

cheers
snusnu

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 15:16, Chris Hoeppner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That does make sense, and doesn't mess with the browsing history (aka
> backbutton mess).
>
> As for the error messages, I remember from Django (let's forget for a
> moment that it's completely different from anything you have in Ruby)
> you could really easily create your own "helper" for rendering form
> fields, and could thus implement a generic way of showing error messages
> next to the corresponding field in the form. Maybe there's something
> half way similar in Merb? I guess I could wrap merb's form helper
> methods, but that seems hacky.
>
> The output I eventually want to obtain would be something along the
> lines of...
>
> <form....>
>    <p>
>        <label...>
>        <input .....>
>        <!-- if @model.errors['whatever'] -->
>            <p class="error">Field can't be empty</p>
>    </p>
> </form>
>
> I guess this might not be as common as to deserve a core helper, but
> maybe I'm overlooking something?
>
> Pavel Kunc escribió:
>> As in Rails as Tony said I use in my apps this kind of code:
>>
>> def new
>>   @model = Model.new
>>   render
>> end
>>
>> def create
>>   @model = Model.new(params[model])
>>   begin
>>     @model.save
>>     redirect url(:next), :message => {:success => 'You did it!'}
>>    rescue Sequel::ValidationFailed
>>      render :new
>>    end
>> end
>>
>> In new you can have:
>> <%= error_messages_for :model %>
>> ..
>> ..
>>
>> On Oct 23, 9:28 pm, Tony Collen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Just like Rails... render the "new" action with whatever @model ivar set.
>>> If you redirect you have to put the model in the session, but redirecting
>>> would mess with the back button.
>>>
>>> - T
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Chris Hoeppner 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> I've been pondering about this for a while, or at least the best way to
>>>> achieve this. It's a fairly common thing, but I can't seem to wrap my
>>>> head around it for whatever reason.
>>>>
>>>> So, say a user submits a form, and whatever he sent you is "invalid".
>>>> What next?
>>>>
>>>> * Need to redirect somewhere else. Maybe back to the "new" form?
>>>> * Need to have the invalid object available, to show pertinent
>>>> validation messages. Do I put the object in the session and have the
>>>> "new" action try to read it from there?
>>>> * Maybe I don't want to have a big red box on top showing all the error
>>>> messages. Any "easy" way to display a field's error message next to the
>>>> field itself?
>>>>
>>>> Any tips in this regard are greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> >
>

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