This validation goes through and validates each individual word in your string. This goes in whatever model you’re validating. “Subject” can be any of the symbols in your model and doesn’t need the : in front of it.

def validate
if subject.split.any?{|w| w.length > 26}
errors.add(:subject, “cannot have words more than 26 consecutive characters”)
end
end

The default Rails way of doing validate error messages is sort of silly. It works, but it doesn’t work that well. You can iterate through all the error messages in a very constrained way (error_messages_for) or you can display errors on fields one by one (error_message_on). I kind of want functionality from [...]

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