Custom error message for password presence validation

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It seems like this should be straightforward. When signing up new users, I want custom errors for blank user names and passwords. It worked fine for the user name:

validates :name, presence: { message: "Please enter a name." },

                      length: { maximum: 50, 
                      message: "Please enter a name shorter than 50 characters"}

When the field is blank, it gives the "Please enter a name." error.

I the same thing for the password:

 has_secure_password
     validates :password, presence: { message: "Please enter a password." }, 
                          length: { minimum: 8,
                             message: "Please choose a password with at least 8 \
                             characters."}

The minimum length message works fine. But if I submit with an empty password, I get the default "can't be blank" message.

Try removing `has_secure_password` and check. – Pavan Aug 01 '15 at 13:54 — Pavan, Aug 01 '15 at 13:54

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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has_secure_password automatically adds some validations for you:

Password must be present on creation

Password length should be less than or equal to 72 characters

Confirmation of password (using a password_confirmation attribute)

To prevent that, declare:

has_secure_password validations: false

And then you can add your own.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Aug 01 '15 at 16:44

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That works! I figured it must have had something to do with has_secure_password, and that was indeed the case. – Terrytreks Aug 02 '15 at 09:30
I found a better way to do this modifying config\app\locals.en.yml – Terrytreks Aug 04 '15 at 06:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '15 at 06:39

has_secure_password validations: false worked at first, but I had a problem when I made the edit user profile page. It assumes the user might not enter a password. So it depends on the validations in has_secure_password, which the answer above disables.

A better way is to edit config/local/en.yml:

en:
  activerecord:
    attributes:
      user:
        password: "Password"
    errors:
      models:
        user:
          attributes:
            password:
              blank: "Please enter a password."

Custom error message for password presence validation

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