# Better in-place-editing with validations?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/better-in-place-editing-with-validations/117986>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 23, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/better-in-place-editing-with-validations/117986 "2007-10-23T00:47:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/better-in-place-editing-with-validations/117986/1 "2007-10-23T00:47:03Z")

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Hi all

I’m looking for a way to improve the existing in place edit field. I  
found the following topic:

[http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/79189](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/79189)

But this is not very satisfying.

What I’d like to have is an in-place-edit field which not only displays  
the validation errors in a fully customizable HTML div next to the edit  
field, it also should keep the entered text until the save is  
successful.

I guess there’s no such thingie yet, so I will try to write one myself.  
But I have no plan where to start. I’d like to use as much Rails stuff  
as possible, so in fact I guess I need some sort of a modified version  
of the existing in place edit field helper. But I don’t know where to  
start and what topics I need to know about.

So please give me some starting points… 🙂

Thanks, Josh