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Ruby

Posted by Casey Clayton
Casey Clayton
16,708 Points

Building Social Features Code Challange

It asks Set the flash error messages if there is no friend_id parameter, so I have.

if params[:friend_id]
  @friend = User.find(params[:friend_id]
else
  flash[:error] = "Friend Required"
end

1 Answer

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

Make sure that is inside the new action. I just tested it and it worked for me.

Casey Clayton
Casey Clayton
16,708 Points

The code challenge automatically supplied the def for the new method. But it is still not passing, and doesn't really tell me what is wrong with the code.

Casey Clayton
Casey Clayton
16,708 Points

Oddly enough I fixed it by deleting everything in the challenge and retyping it all