I have a very basic form, with some very basic validations (though I need to create a custom validation later... you'll probably see a question on that tomorrow. =P ), but I'm having trouble showing the user the validation errors.
Here's my main Sinatra file:
$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))
require 'sinatra'
require 'rubygems'
require 'datamapper'
require 'dm-core'
require 'dm-validations'
require 'lib/authorization'
DataMapper::setup(:default, "sqlite3://#{Dir.pwd}/entries.db")
class Entry
include DataMapper::Resource
property :id, Serial
property :first_name, String, :required => true
property :last_name, String, :required => true
property :email, String, :required => true, :unique => true,
:format => :email_address, :messages => {
:presence => "You have to enter your email address",
:is_unique => "You've already entered",
:format => "That isn't a valid email address" }
property :created_at, DateTime
end
configure :development do
# create, upgrade, or migrate tables automatically
DataMapper.auto_upgrade!
end
helpers do
include Sinatra::Authorization
end
# Set UTF-8 for outgoing
before do
headers "Content-Type" => "text/html; charset=utf-8"
end
get '/' do
@title = "Enter to win a rad Timbuk2 bag!"
erb :welcome
end
post '/' do
@entry = Entry.new(:first_name => params[:first_name], :last_name => params[:last_name], :email => params[:email])
if @entry.save
redirect("/thanks")
else
@entry.errors.each do |e|
puts e
end
redirect('/')
end
end
get '/list' do
require_admin
@title = "List of Entries"
@entries = Entry.all(:order => [:created_at.desc])
erb :list
end
get '/thanks' do
erb :thanks
end
get '/delete/:id' do
require_admin
entry = Entry.get(params[:id])
unless entry.nil?
entry.destroy
end
redirect('/list')
end
So, if a user tries to submit an entry with only a first name, or only a last name, or nothing at all, I can see the errors in my console, but I can't figure out how to get them in the page displayed by my main handler.
I've tried adding a div:
<% unless @entry.errors.empty? %>
<div id="errors">
<% @entry.errors.each do |e| %>
<p><%= e %></p>
<% end %>
</div>
<% end %>
but I get: undefined method `errors' for nil:NilClass