How to add custom errors to the User errors collection?

Question

How can I add errors to the User model manually?

Is it just @user.errors << "some text goes here" ?

Answer 1

 @user.errors.add(:email, "Not valid") 

If you don't want to use any attributes, then in your model

 @user.errors[:base] << "This person is invalid because ..." 

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