Rails 4 custom form validations

Question

In my Rails 4 app, i'd rather not have the default error validation messages so I'm using this (until I finally get around to client side validations).

validates :title, presence: true, :presence => { :message => "is required." }

By default this gets rendered as

Title is required.

How can I remove the :title, and submit my own message like:

:message => "Please add a title to your collection."

Any help is appreciated. As always, thanks!

Check this [SO Post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/808547/fully-custom-validation-error-message-with-rails) — AbM, Dec 16 '13 at 16:21
You might want to use locales: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html#translations-for-active-record-models — Jasdeep Singh, Dec 16 '13 at 16:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '13 at 20:34

here is the example I have in for my code, you should try out errors.add :base, "your message here"

validate :or_fields



def or_fields
      if self.phone.blank? && self.phone2.blank? && self.email.blank? && self.email2.blank?
        errors.add :base, "You must enter either one Phone or one Email"
      end
    end

Rails 4 custom form validations

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