for anyone else who might come across this, i found field_error_proc. you can over ride it and have it automatically add the errors, you can leave the error_message_on out of your code completely. you just add this code to an initializer.
i combined it with the second example to also stop rails from putting those annoying divs around the fields with errors, it makes much more sense to simply add a css class to the fields. http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1671 ActionView::Base.field_error_proc = Proc.new {|html_tag, instance| if instance.error_message.kind_of?(Array) %(#{html_tag}<span class='validation-error'>←# {instance.error_message.join(',')}</span>) else %(#{html_tag}<span class='validation-error'>←# {instance.error_message}</span>) end } http://thewebfellas.com/blog/2008/4/21/error-fields-with-a-hpricot-twist ActionView::Base.field_error_proc = Proc.new do |html_tag, instance| if html_tag =~ /<(input|label|textarea|select)/ error_class = 'error' nodes = Hpricot(html_tag) nodes.each_child { |node| node[:class] = node.classes.push (error_class).join(' ') unless !node.elem? || node[:type] == 'hidden' || node.classes.include?(error_class) } nodes.to_html else html_tag end end On Jan 10, 11:45 pm, scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there an easy way to make error_message_on display more than just > one error message? I know I could create a custom form builder, but it > looks complicated and I would rather learn that when I have more time. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
