So, in my crud controllers, should I be using calls to save instead of create and update_attributes? As those just return the object, and not true of false based on my validations.
Dave On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Eric Mill <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, but in practice, you'd call @user.save, which internally calls > #valid?, and returns true or false on whether the object was saved or > not. If the object wasn't saved, @user.errors is populated with the > error messages. > > -- Eric > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Magnus Holm <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm a little rusty on AR at the moment, but I think it looks something like >> this: >> In the controller: >> if @user.valid? >> # everything is fine >> else >> # ops! @user.errors contains the errors >> end >> //Magnus Holm >> >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 19:43, David Susco <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Can ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods be used to provide >>> feedback to the user? I noticed the tepee example uses >>> "validates_uniqueness_of ". If the title isn't unique however nothing >>> is written and the user is never notified. >>> >>> Does anyone have an example or two of how I could go about informing >>> the user that the title they entered was not unique and they need to >>> enter another? >>> >>> -- >>> Dave >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Camping-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Camping-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >> > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > -- Dave _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
