Error messages without a model

Rails
1

Is there an easy way to create error messages and display them in the
view without using a model from ActiveRecord. I just quickly added a
temporary new field to a form that I have no desire to store in the db
and will probably remove it shortly. I used text_field_tag on the view
which doesn’t require a model but if it’s not provided by the user I
still want to return the error message to the view. I was just hoping
for a simple way to return error messages to the view without having
to add them to a model.

2

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Flash.html

-faisal

3

Hi Eric,

Eric N. wrote:

Is there an easy way to create error messages and display them in the
view without using a model from ActiveRecord. I just quickly added a
temporary new field to a form that I have no desire to store in the db
and will probably remove it shortly. I used text_field_tag on the view
which doesn’t require a model but if it’s not provided by the user I
still want to return the error message to the view. I was just hoping
for a simple way to return error messages to the view without having
to add them to a model.

It sounds like the flash method, probably along with some logic to
redirect_to :back in the case of an error, should give you what you’re
looking for.

hth,
Bill