Scott Becker

I still think the originally proposed format with the field name and message broken out provides the best flexibility, and maps one-to-one with the JSON error o...

Oops, my name and email weren't set correctly in the second commit of that last patch. Here's an updated one with correct contact info.

Here is a new patch adding additional tests verifying the expected behavior for serializing errors added to base, as per Adam Milligan's suggestion.

Adam Milligan -

I will add another patch including tests verifying the expected behavior for serializing errors added to base later today.

Jeff Cohen -

That wou...

Errors added to base would work the same way:

>> d = Dataset.new
=> #<Dataset id: nil, ...>
>> d.errors.add_to_base("is invalid")
=> ["is invalid"]
>> pu...

Those examples didn't format right. Let me try that again.

Example usage:

company = Company.create(:address => '123 First St.')
company.errors.to_xml(:exten...

I needed to return validation errors to an external program via web service so that it could allow a user to fix them.

The standard errors.to_xml method only re...