On May 17, 1:17 pm, phil7085 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, That doesn't give me the value for name it just
> gives back the name of the model. i.e Task so the length given is 4.
>
> Any ideas?
you could do this with a custom validation, ie
validates do |record|
if ...
record.errors.add :name, "Name is #{record.name.length} characters
long"
end
end
>
> On May 17, 10:43 am, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > :message => "Length is #{name.length}, max allowed is 240"
>
> > 2009/5/17 phil7085 <[email protected]>
>
> > > I am learning to use Validations and am using validates_length_of to
> > > check a field value is no longer than 240 characters.
>
> > > I want to be able to produce a message back to the user telling them
> > > that the value they entered was x characters too long.
>
> > > Does anyone know how I can work with the value and its length?
>
> > > validates_length_of :name, :maximum => 240, :message =>
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