Rails VALIDATES w :message?

Rails
1

Hello,

I have the following:

  validates :fname, :presence => true, :length => { :minimum =>

2 }

How do I add a message to that? Right now the errors says “Fname is
too short (minimum is 2 characters)” I’d like it to say First Name and
not Fname.

Thanks.

2

On Nov 10, 11:35am, CuriousNewbie [email protected] wrote:

Hello,

I have the following:

validates :fname, :presence => true, :length => { :minimum =>
2 }

How do I add a message to that? Right now the errors says “Fname is
too short (minimum is 2 characters)” I’d like it to say First Name and
not Fname.

You can simply change the name of the field in your locale file:

en:
activerecord:
attributes:
user:
fname: First name

Check out the Rails Internationalization Guide for more info:

3

that is awesome . thank you!

4

Or, by doing a search of the forum, you’d find my question of the same
subject recently:

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/217956#new

short answer:

validates :name, :presence => { :message => “an alternate message” }