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Ryan Drake
Ryan Drake
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Posted by Ryan Drake
Ryan Drake
12,587 Points

BUG: Coding the API (Building a Rails API) Video Series

Hi all,

Just wanted to list this here in case anyone else gets stuck like me!

I found a bug in this video series. Specifically, the video "Coding the API: Rails API CSRF Verification".

In the video, you're asked to write a private method:

def list_params
  params.require('todo_list').permit("title")
end

However, if you've been following on from the previous "Building a To Do App in Rails 4", we actually have both 'title' and 'description' as required attributes. So if you follow the video and get a 500 error using the cURL:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"title":"Title Here"}' http://localhost:3000/api/todo_lists

You need to modify your private method to:

def list_params
  params.require('todo_list').permit(:title, :description)
end

And alter your cURL to pass through a 'description' parameter as well:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"title":"Title Here", "description":"Description here"}' http://localhost:3000/api/todo_lists

Hopefully that helps some of you get unstuck!