ActiveRecord - replace model validation error with warning

Question

I want to be able to replace a field error with a warning when saving/updating a model in rails. Basically I want to just write a wrapper around the validation methods that\'ll

Answer 1

I made my own gem to solve the problem for Rails 4.1+: https://github.com/s12chung/active_warnings

class BasicModel
  include ActiveWarnings

  attr_accessor :name
  def initialize(name); @name = name; end

  warnings do
    validates :name, absence: true
  end
end

model = BasicModel.new("some_name")
model.safe? # .invalid? equivalent, but for warnings
model.warnings # .errors equivalent