Build a basic ruby application project "treebook": syntax error :first_name, :last_name, :profile_name

Can you paste your user.rb file? Chances are you've left out the end keyword at the end of the file.

You are using Rails 4.0 and the tutorial is for Rails 3. There is no more attr_accessible in Rails 4. Victor and I discussed it here. https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/devise-gem-behavior-changed-in-rails-40

Hey Victor & Alexander,

Here is my user.rb file:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
  # :token_authenticatable, :confirmable,
  # :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
         :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

  # Setup accessible (or protected) attributes for your model
  attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me
                  :first_name, :last_name, :profile_name
  # attr_accessible :title, :body
end

I also checked what version of rails I'm running and it's version 3.2.12. If you could help me out so I can move on with my project I'd really appreciate it. I can't really do much more until I get this issue resolved.

Thanks, Ian

Hi Ian,

You are missing a comma after ":remember_me". The line should look like this:

  attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me,

Hey Sandra, Thanks for helping me out. That fixed everything! I really appreciate it! :)

Ian

Sorry for my reflexive reaction Ian I got the similar error in the same place, assumed the same cause.

Glad you posted it Alexander. I had the same problem running Rails 4.0 I noticed my user.rb file was missing half the content shown in the video. I decided to skip that section and everything runs okay...so far, will report if anything goes wrong down the road.

A few lessons down your going to run into trouble once you start setting up relationships between models, unless you update the controller.

Ok. Problems are now occurring. How do you update the controller?

Hi Remi, which controller would you like to update? A users' controller?

Hi Remi, I'm slowly working on a Rails4 compatible version of Treebook; hopefully, you can follow along, I might take a little step and put in some more documentation on the codebase.

Enjoy: https://github.com/miclovich/treebook

I'm not really sure what to update, I'm going off Alexander's reply. The problem begins when you can't update attr accessible in user.rb in "part 3" because it's no longer used in rails 4.0. When you get to "part 4 Customizing forms" and try to change things around to use full_name and check the browser, you see that everything is screwed!

I'll let you know if looking at your repo helps...thanks for posting it.