Question

I’m creating a Rails app, and I have a model called User. In this model I have a boolean value called isagirl. A user must specify if it is a girl or not, which is done by two radio buttons. In my model I have this:

validates_presence_of :isagirl, :message => "You must be either a Boy or a Girl. If not, please contact us."

However, when I don’t specify a sex, I’m seeing this:

Isagirl You must be either a Boy or a Girl.

as an error message. The problem is that ‘Isagirl’ must not be there in the error message. How can I disable that? And no, using CSS to hide it is no option.

Thanks

Answer 1

The way that I do this is to output the message without the field name. For example, I have a partial that outputs the error messages after validation fails.

<ul>
    <% errors.each do |attribute, message| -%>
        <% if message.is_a?(String)%>
            <li><%= message %></li>
        <% end %>
    <% end -%>
</ul>

Notice that this does not output the attribute. You just need to make sure that all your messages makes sense without an attribute name.