# Changing error message

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/changing-error-message/35447>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [October 17, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/changing-error-message/35447 "2008-10-17T01:33:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/changing-error-message/35447/1 "2008-10-17T01:33:44Z")

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Is there any way to change or hack the error message which we get on the form -- usually it is like "field name" then "message itself", which is pretty inconvenient. Any chance we can change that?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/changing-error-message/35447/2 "2008-10-17T05:05:07Z")

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Olexiy Prokhorenko wrote:

> Is there any way to change or hack the error message which we get on the form -- usually it is like "field name" then "message itself", which is pretty inconvenient. Any chance we can change that?
> 
> Thanks!

try this model.errors.full\_messages