Error messages in nested attribute

Question

I've three models called Account,User and AccountPermission.

I'm creating the Account via AccountPermission while creating user.

However, If a problem occurs related with Account :name, the system throws something like that below.

Account permissions account name has already been taken

So, I just need to fix this error message.

I've tried to add a message attribute to my validation. It is just appending to actual message.

I've also tried locale thing. Still just appending

en:
  activerecord:
    errors:
      models:
        account:
          attributes:
            name:
              taken: 'bla bla'

As far as I see in ActiveModel. This message's structure comes from below

locale/en.yml in ActiveModel

en:
  errors:
    format: "%{attribute} %{message}"

So, Is there any way edit this message painless ? If I even delete the model name, It's enough.

are you asking can you throw a custom error message when validation fails? — Tall Paul, Aug 08 '16 at 20:32

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 08 '16 at 20:37

3

Error message is concatenated from the error itself and the attribute name, which is account_permissions/account.name in the provided error.

You can add locale for your attribute names like so:

en:
  activerecord:
    attributes:
      account: # this is model name
        name: "Name"

or

en:
  activerecord:
    attributes:
      account_permissions/account:
        name: "Account name"

answered Aug 08 '16 at 20:37

Vasfed

Finally ! Thank you so much. `account_permissions/account` works :) – utkuDAT Aug 09 '16 at 06:07
Saved my day. Thanks @Vasfed. Where did you find this? Where is this documented? – Ameen Aug 08 '19 at 11:10
@Ameen when encountered this on my project - had to read through the rails sources, did not find any documentation – Vasfed Aug 08 '19 at 11:14

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