# Retrieving validation messages without making errors

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-validation-messages-without-making-errors/110069>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 22, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-validation-messages-without-making-errors/110069 "2007-07-22T14:43:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marmolin)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-validation-messages-without-making-errors/110069/1 "2007-07-22T14:43:22Z")

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I would like to inform the users about attribute validation conditions  
for form fields using title as in .  
The simplest way would be to use the validation error messages already  
defined in the models, but I cannot find any way to retrieve these  
messages, when no error has been made. The methods I have tried as  
errors.full\_messages only returns the messages for errors that have been  
made

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**Author:** ![marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marmolin)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-validation-messages-without-making-errors/110069/2 "2007-07-26T00:46:30Z")

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On Jul 22, 8:43 am, Hans M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> I would like to inform the users about attribute validation conditions  
> for form fields using title as in .  
> …

Try using the validation\_reflection plugin.  
[http://www.schuerig.de/michael/rails/validation\_reflection/](http://www.schuerig.de/michael/rails/validation_reflection/)

Dan M.  
[http://www.dcmanges.com](http://www.dcmanges.com)

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**Author:** ![marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marmolin)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-validation-messages-without-making-errors/110069/3 "2007-07-26T14:02:53Z")

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Dan M. wrote:

> On Jul 22, 8:43 am, Hans M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
> wrote:
> 
> > I would like to inform the users about attribute validation conditions  
> > for form fields using title as in .  
> > …
> 
> Try using the validation\_reflection plugin.  
> [http://www.schuerig.de/michael/rails/validation\_reflection/](http://www.schuerig.de/michael/rails/validation_reflection/)
> 
> Dan M.  
> [http://www.dcmanges.com](http://www.dcmanges.com)

Thanks  
Thats will solve my problem, I think.  
I will test it soon

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**Author:** ![marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@marmolin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marmolin)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-validation-messages-without-making-errors/110069/4 "2007-08-13T18:51:37Z")

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what about… \<%= error\_message\_on (“model name here”,“title”) %\>

On Jul 22, 1:43 pm, Hans M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)