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Rails Error Messages on Fields and other Customizations

Rails Error Messages on Fields and other Customizations If you wanted to show an error message with the field and also you wanted to highlight that particular field. Here you have to create a new file inside  config/initializers folder of your application, make sure to restart your application if you are making any sort of changes inside the config folder. Here we are basically adding a class "error" to the field and showing a span with the error message. rails-fields-with-errors.rb ActionView::Base.field_error_proc = Proc.new do |html_tag, instance| class_attr_index = html_tag.index 'class="' errors = Array(instance.error_message).join(',') if !class_attr_index.nil? html_tag.insert class_attr_index+7, 'error ' else html_tag.insert html_tag.index('>'), ' class="error"' end %(#{html_tag}  #{errors} ).html_safe end