How to do validation with displayed error msgs

rubyonrails-talk
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Could someone point me at an example that do validation "correctly".

I've got a controller, a couple of models, and some views. They work fine except for the validation.

My model looks like " class ContractPayment < ActiveRecord::Base

  set_table_name "contract_payment"   set_primary_key "contract_payment_id"

  belongs_to :contract, :foreign_key => "contract_id"

  validates_presence_of :contract_id, :credit_card_type_code, :credit_card_type_prefix, :credit_card_expiration_date, :credit_card_number, :credit_card_validation_code

end " How do I trigger this validation and then display error msgs back to the user?

Thanks, Jason

2

You have two choices:

(1) To display all error messages use the method error_messages_for() in your view.

(2) To separate all the error messages, use the method error_message_on() in your view.

The methods' details can be found here:

Zack

3

By the way, I was assuming that you were already doing something like:

if @contract_payment.save then   #success else   #redirect to edit view where   #error messages will be shown end

in your controller.

Zack