Michael, Thank you for this, I will try it right away.
Mind if I ask where the best place to put this code in as a best practice for Rails? Matthew On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Michael Pavling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 April 2010 01:23, Matthew Hillsborough > <[email protected]> wrote: > > That is what I can't figure out. Why am I getting Bars is invalid > > versus the error messages displayed above, ["Real can't be blank", > > "Real you must supply a valid email"] etc. > > > > How do I have this output the real error messages so the user has some > > insight into what they did wrong? How do I write my render method in > > my controller to show all of the appropriate error messages? And more > > important, what will my xml builder view look? > > > > I tend to use the "merge errors" process gleaned from > http://dev.rubyonrails.org/attachment/ticket/11394/merge_bang_errors.patch > > http://gist.github.com/376389 > > Then in your controller you can use: > > @foo.errors.merge! bar.errors > > ... and the view will work as normal, but with nice errors :-) > > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.

