# Adding validation to text fields with autocomplete and to select fields **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 10, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-validation-to-text-fields-with-autocomplete-and-to-select-fields/128716 "2008-02-10T22:38:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CSSSSssio\_Marques](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@CSSSSssio\_Marques](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/CSSSSssio_Marques)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-validation-to-text-fields-with-autocomplete-and-to-select-fields/128716/1 "2008-02-10T22:38:29Z")
Hello everybody, I’m just learning rails right now and for simple CRUD operations I’m using scaffold to generate some code. I’m using Rails 1.2.6. I’ve changed some of the fields to use an autocomplete feature and validation using validate\_presence\_of is not working on these fields. The problem is that this fields are related to stuff inside a different model, like: I have two tables, one called artist and the other called album. Album has a foreign key to Artist. So in the \_form.rhtml for the album i have a field with autocompletion for the name of the artist. In the album controller I make a search for the artist with the received name and associate it to the newly created instante of Album. But if the user sends the form with the artist\_name empty, I don’t know how to use the validation helpers… This isn’t working for select fields nether. Putting it simple, it just works for ordinary text fields. Anybody? Thank you very much! Cássio Marques