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I have read that errors.add_to_base should be used for errors associated with the object and not a specific attribute. I am having trouble conceptualizing what this means. Could someone provide an example of when I would want to use each?
For example, I have a Band model and each Band has a Genre. When I validate the presence of a genre, if the genre is missing should the error be added to the base?
The more examples the better
Thank you!
A missing genre would be a field error. A base error would be something like an exact duplicate of an existing record, where the problem wasn’t tied to any specific field but rather to the record as a whole (or at lest to some combination of fields).