# Changing error message

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/changing-error-message/151120>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 17, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/changing-error-message/151120 "2008-10-17T03:33:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![inrila](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@inrila](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/inrila)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/changing-error-message/151120/1 "2008-10-17T03:33:44Z")

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Is there any way to change or hack the error message which we get on the  
form – usually it is like “field name” then “message itself”, which is  
pretty inconvenient. Any chance we can change that?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![inrila](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@inrila](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/inrila)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/changing-error-message/151120/2 "2008-10-17T07:05:07Z")

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Olexiy Prokhorenko wrote:

> Is there any way to change or hack the error message which we get on the  
> form – usually it is like “field name” then “message itself”, which is  
> pretty inconvenient. Any chance we can change that?
> 
> Thanks!  
> try this  
> model.errors.full\_messages