Question

In my rails app I use the validation helpers in my active record objects and they are great. When there is a problem I see the standard ‘3 errors prohibited this foobar from being saved’ on my web page along with the individual problems.

Is there any way I can override this default message with my own?

Answer 1

The error_messages_for helper that you are using to display the errors accepts a :header_message option that allows you to change that default header text. As in:

error_messages_for 'model', :header_message => 'You have some errors that prevented saving this model'

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