Ruby on Rails

On Aug 30, 7:36 pm, Linda K <windyli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to extend Active Record to write a method that will convert
> validation errors to xml that can be consumed by Flex.  But I'm
> following a tutorial that has been written for Rails 2 and I'm using
> Rails 3.
>
> Each time i try to call the new method i get the error
>
> undefined method `to_xml_full' for #<ActiveModel::Errors
>
The errors stuff is no longer in ActiveRecord::Errors, so you're
extending the wrong class. The error message you're getting suggests
that you should be extending ActiveModel::Errors instead.

Fred

> Here's the code from my application controller ::
>
> `module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
> class Errors #:nodoc:
> def to_xml_full(options={})
> options[:root] ||= "errors"
> options[:indent] ||= 2
> options[:builder] ||=
> Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:indent => options[:indent])
> options[:builder].instruct! unless
> options.delete(:skip_instruct)
> options[:builder].errors do |e|
> # The @errors instance variable is a Hash inside the
> # Errors class
> @errors.each_key do |attr|
> @errors[attr].each do |msg|
> next if msg.nil?
> if attr == "base"
> options[:builder].error("message"=>msg)
> else
> fullmsg = @base.class.human_attribute_name(attr) +
> " " + msg
> options[:builder].error(
> "field"=>attr, "message"=>fullmsg)
> end
> end
> end
> end
> end
> end
> end
>
> and here's the code from user controller that is calling the new
> to_xml_full method
>
> def create
>     @user = User.new(params[:user])
>     @user.points = 50
>     logger.info "user errors full: #...@user.errors.to_xml_full}"
>     respond_to do |format|
>     if @user.save
>       sign_in(@user)
>       format.html {redirect_to user_path(@user), :flash => { :success
> => "Welcome to Crowdshare App"}}
>       #format.xml {render xml: @user, status: :created, location:
> @user }
>       format.xml {render :text => "error" }
>     else
>       @title ="Sign up"
>       format.html {render action: 'new'}
>       #format.xml {render xml: @user.errors,
> status: :unprocessable_entity}
>       format.xml {render :text => "error" }
>     end
>     end
>   end
>
> Any ideas where i might be going wrong?
> Thanks in advance

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