Error messages (utf8)

Rails
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does someone know how i controll the automatic messages populated by the
validates_blahs? i think i swept my eyes across the fact that they may
be in the enviorment.rb file, but now i can’t find anything (annoying).
how do i controll the error_messages_for … ?

thanks for any references, etc.

harp

2

What I do in my apps, is this:

validates_[whatever] params,params, :message=>‘You misstyped something
in
this field’

Hope it helps.

harper
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3

Hi,

there is a problem i’ve been trying to solve for a couple of hours now,
and after some useless googeling and searching around, i haven’t come up
with anything substansial - i thought the forum might help me.

say i have a string and want to display only the first 10 characters or
so:

shortstring = “this is a very long string object”[0…10]

shortstring = "this is a " # which is great

but if i use the same method on a utf8 string, i get some weird
characters popping in there, sometimes yes, sometimes no. from looking
around it seems that because every character is two bytes(as apposed to
1 in regular encoding) there is sometimes a sum of odd/even characters,
and then the [0…10] doesn’t work correctly, populating wierd
characters. (same deal goes for the String#slice method)

the final result i need, in essence of this message is this:

“very long string in utf8” to become
“very lon…”

without weird characters.
any help, much appreciated.

thanks,
harp