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ruby-on-railsvalidationerror-handling
legendary_rob
legendary_rob

Reputation: 13012

Rails Validations neat errors in form

So i made a Validation that will check gender if an accurate ID number is inputted, if the data is incorrect then an error will appear beneath the select within the form.

.col
  %h4 Participant
  = f.field(:full_name, :label => "Full name *")
  = f.field(:id_number)
  = f.field(:gender, :field_type => :select, :choices => GENDER_SELECT, :label => 'Gender *')
  %br #note i added this as the 'hacky' fix
  = f.field(:race, :field_type => :select, :choices => RACE_SELECT, :label => 'Race *')

without the %br i have the form return the error like this

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Is there a less hacky way so that when the error is displayed that it renders it something like this. so that the errors don't overflow onto other form elements

%br
= participant.errors[:gender]
%br

Upvotes: 0

Views: 37

Answers (2)

user740584
user740584

Reputation: 

.field-error
    = participant.errors[:gender]

Then use css to style the field-error class.

Upvotes: 1

Jef
Jef

Reputation: 5474

You should use CSS styles to control the errors layout/visual appearance instead of additional HTML tags.

Upvotes: 1

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