I'll give that a try. I was hoping for something less "manual" but I can live with this.
On Sep 15, 7:43 am, pepe <p...@betterrpg.com> wrote: > Just off the top of my head and never done it but... could you reuse > the params value to repopulate the field if the field has errors? I > think it should be possible. Something like: > > unless @your_object.save > @your_object.your_attribute = params[:your_object][:your_attribute] > if @your_object.errors.on @your_object.your_attribute > render... > end > > The syntax might be off but you should get it right easily if that's > the case. > > On Sep 14, 11:05 am, jdc <jdcrutch...@spiffworks.com> wrote: > > > I've noticed that if I use the numericality validator and the user > > enters, for example "1234ABCD" it'll come back with a "not a number" > > error, but it then fills the input box with "1234", discarding the non- > > numeric input the user originally put in. > > > I've seen a similar question about this in this group, but the poster > > was looking for a way to completely blank the number upon return. I > > want something different - I'd like the original value to be > > displayed, which seems more logical to me. > > > What worries me about having it auto-strip the non-numeric stuff is, > > if a user has a couple of validation problems in the form, they may > > fix other ones, not noticing the numeric, which will now happily post > > because it's been turned into a number automagically by Rails - and > > maybe not the number that was intended. > > > I'm afraid it may be impossible since I think it's actually the input > > parser doing this and not the validator, but does anyone know how to > > make the original value come back instead of the parsed? > > > Thanks in advance. > > > jc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
