Kohana Validation Messages

In Kohana, you are able to add validation rules to a model. This is truly awesome, BUT displaying the validation error is not so automatic out of the box.

In your model you can set up rules like:

If this is all you have and username is submitted as empty, kohana will throw an ugly exception "Failed to validate array". What we need to do is set up a message to show if this situation ever happens. If your model is "user" create the file "user.php" in /application/messages. In that file set the messages:

Hopefully Kohana will include better, prettier, and automatic validation layers in future releases but in the current, it's not too bad.