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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Adding Validations to Todo Items

Posted by Alp Eren Can
Alp Eren Can
25,230 Points

Content can't be blank

Is this a pre-defined error message inside rails? I accidentally typed a period at the the end of it in my test file(create_spec.rb) and the test has failed. The view puts these messages with the code below so I'm guessing it is but just to be sure:

    <% @todo_item.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
        <li><%= msg %></li>
    <% end %>

Thanks in advance!

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Yes ,they are built-in:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activemodel/lib/active_model/locale/en.yml

Just remove the dot from test. Changing the default message will be much harder.