Question

I assume this is really easy, and I’m missing something obvious. I’m connecting to a legacy database that has column dblOrderQty. I’m validating it thusly:

validates_numericality_of :dblOrderQty, :greater_than => 0

This, of course, presents “Dblorderqty must be greater than 0”. I’d much rather have that say “Quantity must be greater than 0,” but I can’t find a way to modify the column name in the message.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is best way, but it works 🙂

class ModelName < ActiveRecord::Base
  HUMANIZED_ATTRIBUTES = {
    :dblOrderQty => "Order Quantity"
  }

  validates_numericality_of :dblOrderQty, :greater_than => 0

  def self.human_attribute_name(attr)
    HUMANIZED_ATTRIBUTES[attr.to_sym] || super
  end
end