How Do I Change Rails 4 has_secure_password Presence Message? - ruby-on-rails

Question

For reference: Rails 4, bcrypt 3.1.7, and I'm using the simple_form gem
Within my model, I have this code:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_secure_password
validates :email, presence: {message: 'You must provide an email'},
format: { with: /#/, message: 'Please enter a valid email' }
validates :name, presence: {message: 'You must enter your first name'}
# TODO: Make validation message work
validates :password, presence: {message: 'You must enter a password'},
length: {minimum: 8,
message: 'Your password must contain at least 8 characters'}
end
Everything works as expected, except the presence validator for password. How do I go about changing the message to my message?

Answer 1

Check out the docs on has_secure_password here: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/SecurePassword/ClassMethods.html
As you can see, you can suppress the default validations:
has_secure_password validations: false
This should allow your custom validations for password to be used.
Note that you'll now need to explicitly add a password confirmation validation also. Here's the one that's used in has_secure_password that you could use:
validates_confirmation_of :password, allow_blank: true
So with everything, your model would look like this:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_secure_password validations: false
.
.
.
validates :password, presence: {message: 'You must enter a password'},
length: {minimum: 8,
message: 'Your password must contain at least 8 characters'}
validates_confirmation_of :password, allow_blank: true
end
EDIT
If you want to only change the message and still use the default validations that come with has_secure_password, you can edit your en.yml file:
config/locales/en.yml
en:
activerecord:
errors:
models:
user:
attributes:
password:
blank: "You must enter a password"
Then, for :password, you will only need to add your minimum password validation, as that is not included with has_secure_password:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_secure_password
.
.
.
validates :password, length: {
minimum: 8,
message: 'Your password must contain at least 8 characters'
}
end