Hi.. i have a auto complete field for my authority_id field.authority_id field is not mandatory.if the user not fills it will take the default authority id as value. but i want to validate if the user enters invalid authority name into the auto complete text box... i can do this in my controller... but how can i implementd as modal validation. pls help on this below is my controller side implementation #if autority text box is empty? if params[:user_info][:login].empty? @user = UserInfo.find_by_login('admin') @company.authority_id = @user.id else authority = UserInfo.find_by_login(params[:user_info][:login]) if authority.nil? flash[ :error ] = "*Please Enter valid Authority name" else @company.authority_id = authority.id end end
hi.. some one pls help me... thanks