Following a simple example of the Rails book and using scaffolding I got
a
simple application to manage a user database.
the controller is like:
def new
@user = User.new
@text = “Hello World”
end
def create
@user = User.new(params[:user])
if @user.save
flash[:notice] = ‘User was successfully created.’
redirect_to :action => ‘list’
else
render :action => ‘new’
end
end
Note the @text var I create on the new action… The view is the scaffold
generated one with a little addition at the end to print the @text
instance
var I create in the “new” action.
very simple stuff and it works.
If I add validation to the model like “validates_presence_of :name”
and
press the create button without filling the name field in the form the
‘new’
action is rendered with the error box at the top indicating error (this
is
ok) but the @text var dissappears. Making some tests I find that @text
is
nil when this page is rendered and there are error_messages_for user.
If I want the @text var to be displayed in the form when creating a new
user
and when there are errors, I have to create that var in both actions
“new”
and “create” . I think this is a violation of the DRY principle.
Am I doing something wrong??
regards,
Horacio