handling validation

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi list,

I've started migrating to rails 3 and right now I'm getting to grips with the different methods for handling validation error message.

I've found this on asciiguides which seems good, the first code examples which move the error display handling to a partial:

http://asciicasts.com/episodes/211-validations-in-rails-3

Which works perfectly for the new and create actions, however on the edit and update actions it gives me the following, referring to the first line of the partial:

undefined local variable or method `target' for #<#<Class:0xb6459528>:0xb645683c>

The only difference between the new/create and the edit/update actions is the formers uses @model.save and the latter @model.update_attributes.

If I take out the refence to the partial, replacing the model name back in, everything works fine but really isn't DRY.

I can post full code examples if necessary.

Thanks

Matt

2

That would be extremely helpful.

B.

3

Ok, here is the controller code:

http://pastie.org/1807523

And the views:

http://pastie.org/1807530

And the partial:

http://pastie.org/1807536

new/update works perfectly, while edit/update gives this error while visiting the edit action:

http://pastie.org/1807548

If I change the edit view to look like the following, it works fine:

http://pastie.org/1807558

But I don't want to have to do that for every view. As you can tell I'm no expert and I'm a bit stumped. Grateful for some tips

Thanks

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I think the issue is that you need to remove :partial=> from your Edit Category view. When you are specifying :partial hash param it is ignoring :target and expecting something else, like collection, to be passed in. If you change your Edit to be like what is below it should work.

Change from this:

= render :partial => “shared/error_messages”, :target => @category

To this:

= render "shared/error_messages", :target => @category

B.

5

Thanks Bryan,

That was exactly the problem. I had looked at the edit views vs the new views so many times. I just didn't notice that they differed as you showed above. I thought I'd copied and pasted so I really didn't expect them to be different.

Thanks again