# Rails Validation query

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-validation-query/147482>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 2, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-validation-query/147482 "2008-09-02T11:55:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abhishek_shukla)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-validation-query/147482/1 "2008-09-02T11:55:19Z")

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Hello Friend,  
Need a help…  
Whenever i am doing rails validation its give me an output at

\*3 errors prohibited this customer from being saved

There were  
problems with the following fields:

- Enter your name
- Enter your e-mail address

\*So i need to modify the above mention default errors…

Only i want to display  
"

- _Enter your name_ 
 _- Enter your e-mail address
"_

So please let me know how i can edit…

Thanks n regards  
abhi…

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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Abhishek\_shukla](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Abhishek_shukla)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-validation-query/147482/2 "2008-09-02T12:00:03Z")

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On 2 Sep 2008, at 10:54, Abhishek shukla wrote:

> Only i want to display  
> “
> 
> - Enter your name 
> - Enter your e-mail address
> ”
> 
> So please let me know how i can edit…

If you want to customise the layout of error messages and stuff like  
that your best bet is to stop using error\_messages\_for and write your  
own replacement (it’s not hard. look at the source for  
error\_messages\_for and fiddle with @your\_object.errors.full\_messages)

Fred