# Validation Non Activerecord Objects

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/validation-non-activerecord-objects/325>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [August 23, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/validation-non-activerecord-objects/325 "2006-08-23T15:05:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don\_Miguel\_de\_los\_Pl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@Don\_Miguel\_de\_los\_Pl](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Don_Miguel_de_los_Pl)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/validation-non-activerecord-objects/325/1 "2006-08-23T15:05:39Z")

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I think you can declare a validate method in your model and use errors.add to add messages for your view. Not exactly sure though.

-m