Hello all, I’m new to Ruby and Ruby on Rails, so please have patience
with a newbie.
I was looking at the HTML produced when there are form errors and
realized why my layout keeps breaking. Every label and input with an
error gets wrapped with a div tag! So, I’ve been looking at the source
… but I have yet to find what object or method to inherit from.
Can you guys tell me how to change the output? What I’d like to
accomplish is that flawed fields, any inputs, have the standard error
class (no wrapping div) and that any labels have the class too. IE, I’d
rather output the tag with a class name than a wrapping div with a class
name.
Can you guys tell me how to change the output? What I’d like to
accomplish is that flawed fields, any inputs, have the standard error
class (no wrapping div) and that any labels have the class too. IE,
I’d
rather output the tag with a class name than a wrapping div with a
class
name.
You can set ActionView::Base.field_error_proc (take a look insider
active_record_helper to see what the default is.)
Is the tag an object, or the actual string output?
Okay, here’s what I found.
ActiveView::Base.field_error_proc has two parameters, the HTML output
followed by the actual object itself. Then, field_error_proc is called
within a function within the InstanceTag object which passes itself to
the error procedure.
InstanceTag is not documented, so I’m left with scrounging what I can
get from the source code. Between active_record_helper.rb and
form_helper.rb I have a decent reference.
One problem: the error handler is not aware of the options passed to the
InstanceTag. So, I cannot actually modify the class option and
regenerate the tag. (Not without modifying the source, which I’m not
comfortable with doing yet.) So… gsub here I come.
Here’s what I have:
I put this in the top of application.rb, where should it go?
ActionView::Base.field_error_proc = Proc.new do |html, instance_tag|
if html.match(/class=(’|")([\w\s\d]?)\1/i)
html.gsub(/class=(’|")([\w\s\d]?)\1/i, ‘class="\2
fieldWithErrors"’)
else
html.gsub(/<[\w]+/i, ‘\0 class=“fieldWithErrors”’)
end
end
