The attribute name is repeated twice in the error message

Question

Hi,

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I have a en.yml file

en:
  hello: "Hello world"
  activerecord:
    models:
      recipe: "Recipe"
    attributes:
      recipe:
        title: "Recipe title"
    errors:
      models:
        recipe:
          attributes:
            title:
              blank: "{{attribute}} cannot be left blank"

In my model I validate the presence of the title field

  validates_presence_of :title

However, the error message that I see on the page is something like this

Recipe title Recipe title cannot be left blank.

I cannot figure out why the attribute name is repeated twice.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Because rails prefixes the error message with the attribute name. You don't need {{attribute}} in the message. This would work as expected:

en:
  hello: "Hello world"
  activerecord:
    models:
      recipe: "Recipe"
    attributes:
      recipe:
        title: "Recipe title"
    errors:
      models:
        recipe:
          attributes:
            title:
              blank: "cannot be left blank"

Answer 2

There is a fix that makes error messages more customizable (attribute names aren't shown in the beginning of the sentence). You can find it here : http://adamhooper.com/eng/articles/5