On Aug 16, 5:25 am, Greg Willits <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I suspect this has been asked 400 times, but Google yields 2-3 rather
> complex gymnastics in blogs (and possibly dated), and searching list
> archives on ruby-forum proves kinda useless.
>
> Using standard forms, it's fairly easy to use
> @object.errors[:field_name] in the form to embed an error message right
> next to the field that has the invalid entry. The controller uses a
> simple conditional with redirect_to to re-display the form if needed.
>
> I don't understand how to reproduce this same straight-forward process
> when the form uses a form_remote_tag.
>
> Is there a simple, universal process for this, or does it really take 40
> lbs of hacks to accomplish like the blogs all seem to suggest?
>
It should be reasonably straightforward to re-render the entire form.
It might get more complicated if you want to be cleverer that that. I
suppose you could have a div/span with a predictable id next to each
field then loop over object.errors, inserting relevant content into
each of these div/spans
Fred
> If it makes any difference, I do not want some generic red box at the
> top of the page saying there's errors below. I want the error messages
> displayed with the input fields.
>
> Quite lost -- clues appreciated.
>
> -- gw
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