ruby on rails - What's the difference between "validate" and "validates"? - Stack Overflow

I added a validation to an objects using: validate :field, presence: true I found they do not give error messages. I changed them to validates and got the error messages. This ticket is relevant. I tried to add a custom validation with validates and got an error: You need to supply at least one validation I changed it to validate, and everything went along as expected. My understanding is to use v

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“What's the difference between “validate” and “validates”?”