Rails client_side_validations inside a bootstrap modal

Question

I'm trying to add the gem client_side_validations to my application. It works pretty fine if I go to something like controller/new, but, inside a bootstrap modal, it simply does nothing.

I inspected the HTML and it does not add the data-validate attribute. What should I do to fix this?

Answer 1

I just figured it out. In my coffeescript call, I do something like:

$('.modal').on 'shown', ->
    $(this).find('input:visible:first').focus().end().find('form').enableClientSideValidations()

This focus the first visible input, and enable the client side validations on the form.