Error_messages_for, can i overide the name in the title?

Rails
1

hi, i pass a general name object to my form and was wondering if i can
overide the deafult title in the message box. is that possible besides
overiding what is in active record?

thanks.

2

I’m not 100% sure I understand your question but does this help?

in your model override the human_attribute_name method:

def self.human_attribute_name(attribute)
return “My Custom Name” if attribute == “name”
etc…
etc…
end

good luck!

3

There is a plugin that does what you want:
http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/error_messages_for

I use it in my production applications and it’s quite useful. I don’t
think
I’ve even scratched the surface in my current iterations of what is
possible
and convient with it.

The most important feature you’ll like of it is if you create a method
called business_name in any of your models and have it return a string,
that
string will be used as the text when referring to that model.

So in a model like this

class Monday < AR::Blah::Blah

def business_name
“Tuesday”
end

end

Monday becomes Tuesday.

Taylor SIngletary,
Reality Technician
http://www.realitytechnicians.com