GeoKit / Form Validation

Rails
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I am new to rails and have been scouring the web for the past two days
trying to figure out 2 things.

  1. I am currently using a form with 2 models. The first is person, the
    second is address. I attempted to duplicate the two models on one form
    as seen in Advanced Rails Recipes and Railscasts, and they work fine -
    except when there are validation issues on the address piece it just
    returns saying “Addresses is invalid”. I would much rather it say
    “Street Address is blank” or “City cannot be blank” any ideas on how
    to do this?

  2. In using the GeoKit plugin I am attempting to use the
    acts_as_mappable piece so when I create an address it adds the lat and
    lng to the DB. If I choose just 1 field and specify it this works fine
    and the table populates, but I want to concat all of the form values
    (Street_Address_1, City, State, Postal_Code, Country) and pass these
    in as the location. It appears GeoKit expects address to be a single
    field - which will not work for my application. I am not opposed to
    using another plugin, it just seems GeoKit is overall the easiest.

Any help would be greatly apperciated, and please go easy on me, I am
attempting to learn RoR on and old AWDWR book, and Advanced Rails
Recipies.

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I’m thinking that perhaps the answer to my second issue with GeoKit is
simply needing to concatenate the fields for my address form into a
string, however, no matter what I try I get errors. Any suggestions on
how to do this?