Question

The following validation code in the model:

validates :formatted_address, :zip, :city, :state, :country, :presence => true, :message => "is incomplete. Please enter full address."

is displayed when either of the fields are empty. Let’s say now :address and country are empty, 2 errors are displayed:

Formatted Address is incomplete. Please enter full address.
Country is incomplete. Please enter full address.

How can I group the error message in the validation to just show one error message if either of the fields validated does not exist?

Address is incomplete. Please enter full address.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could just write your own validator using the validate macro:

validate :has_complete_address

#...

private
def has_complete_address
    # Check that everything is there and
    # call self.errors.add to store an error
    # message if something is wrong.
end