Removing Specific ActiveRecord Errors

Rails
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Is there a way to remove a specific error or errors on a specific
attribute? I see there is a object.errors.clear, but that clears all
the errors associated with the object. I would like to do something
like object.errors.clear(‘email’), where any errors associated with
the email attribute are cleared out.

Thanks,
Tom

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3

Tom, did you ever get a solution to this problem, or even a work around.
I’ve got the same issue now.

Thanks in Advance
Tom S.

TomRossi7 wrote:

Is there a way to remove a specific error or errors on a specific
attribute? I see there is a object.errors.clear, but that clears all
the errors associated with the object. I would like to do something
like object.errors.clear(‘email’), where any errors associated with
the email attribute are cleared out.

4

object.errors looks like a hash. Can you do a puts object.errors and
post
the result?

If it says :email => ‘foo’ somewhere, you should be able to do
object.errors.clear :email

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Tom S. <

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Tom S. wrote:

This way I’m checking that the associated object is valid without
generating the errors in the first place.

I love the rails validates helpers so much that I forget I can do
validation myself and get all the control I’ll ever need.

You can also use :message => nil option on the validates_associated
statement.

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6

Thanks for the tip Commander.
I figured it out.

I was needing to do a validates_associated but I didn’t want the error
message to appear in my view. My answer to this at the time was to
remove the error message once the object had been validated.

However a much better way was to write my own validate statement

def validate
return false unless self.associated_object.valid?
end

This way I’m checking that the associated object is valid without
generating the errors in the first place.

I love the rails validates helpers so much that I forget I can do
validation myself and get all the control I’ll ever need.

Cheers
Tom