Custom Association validation error messages?

Rails
1

Hi,

Consider 2 models Project and Task with Project has_many Tasks and
Task belongs_to Project.

In a multi model form where I accept the Project name and its task
names (Ryan B.’ complex forms 3), when I have a
validates_presence_of :name for the Task model, the error messages
that show up for two blank tasks is

Task is invalid
Task is invalid
Name cannot be blank
Name cannot be blank

Now ive got error_messages_for overridden to display only the messages
i pass to it. But I dont know how to remove the “Task is invalid” part
of it. It is completely unnecessary for me. How can I remove that
default error message for the associated model?

2

I have a quick solution for this for now. Its a very ugly hack. If
someone has a better way to handle this, please do enlighten…

This is the modified error_messges_for method in application_helper.rb
with the ugly hack. (Rails 2.1.0 and before)

def error_messages_for(*params)
options = params.extract_options!.symbolize_keys
if object = options.delete(:object)
objects = [object].flatten
else
objects = params.collect {|object_name| instance_variable_get
("@#{object_name}") }.compact
end
count = objects.inject(0) {|sum, object| sum +
object.errors.count }
unless count.zero?
html = {}
[:id, :class].each do |key|
if options.include?(key)
value = options[key]
html[key] = value unless value.blank?
else
html[key] = ‘validation_error’
end
end
options[:object_name] ||= params.first
error_messages = objects.map {|object| object.errors.collect{ |
column,error| content_tag( :span, error + “
” ) unless error ==
“is invalid”} }
#The above line is where i remove the column from the error
message, and also the error itself if it says “is invalid”
contents = ‘’
contents << content_tag(:div, error_messages)

   content_tag(:div, contents, html)
 else
   ''
 end

end