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class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  # With default error messages.
  validates_presence_of :title
  validates_length_of :description, :minimum => 10

  # With your own message with L10n. 
  # old style(Backward compatibility).
  # blog.po in RAILS_ROOT/po/*/ is used.
#  validates_presence_of :title, :message => _("can't be empty")
#  validates_length_of :description, :minimum => 10, :message => _("is too short (min is %d characters)")

  # new style (you can use %{fn} and %d freely in the message)
  # blog.po in RAILS_ROOT/po/*/ is used.
#  validates_presence_of :title, :message => _("%{fn} can't be empty!")
#  validates_length_of :description, :minimum => 10, :message => _("%{fn} is too short (min is %d characters)")

#
# you can also redefined the title/explanation of the top of the error message.
#
#  def error_message_title(num, record)
#    n_("%{num} error prohibited this %{record} from being saved", 
#       "%{num} errors prohibited this %{record} from being saved", num) % 
#      {:num => num, :record => record}
#  end
#
#  def error_message_explanation(num)
#    n_("There was a problem with the following field:", 
#    "There were problems with the following fields:", num) % {:num => num}
#  end

end

Version data entries

2 entries across 2 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
gettext-1.2.0-mswin32	samples/rails/app/models/article.rb
gettext-1.2.0	samples/rails/app/models/article.rb