Customizing Rails error messages for models and attributes

Rails has generic error messages you can define in your locale .yml files. You may override those application-wide error messages using model or attribute scope like this:

en:
  activerecord:
    errors:
      messages:
        invalid: is invalid # used for any invalid attribute in the application
        presence: etc
      models:
        car:
          invalid: does not work # used for invalid car attributes
          attributes:
            driver:
              invalid: not allowed to drive # used if the car's driver attribute is invalid

Dominik Schöler

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Last edit

2024-07-29

Dominik Schöler

Keywords

tailoring, tailoring, i18n, internationalization, localization

License

Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.

Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2013-03-27 14:42)