Can create user in Rails Console, but can't with HTML Form

Question

So I've run through a bunch of courses/tracks here at Treehouse, and have also worked through railstutorial.org once already. Now I'm running through the rails tutorial again with some changes and customization, and have run into an issue I haven't been able to figure out:

I'm currently creating a User Sign Up for the application, and the HTML form won't create users, or even validation the input properly (it gives all errors, even with valid entries). In the rails console, I'm able to create a new user, find that it's valid or invalid, get the correct error messages with invalid data, and save the user with valid data.

Upon clicking the submit button in the, the rails server gives me this message: (0.0ms) BEGIN User Exists (81.0ms) SELECT 1 AS one FROM 'users' WHERE 'users'.'email' IS NULL LIMIT 1 (0.0ms) ROLLBACK

There is no data in the DB when receiving this message, I've checked many times.

It's driving me crazy, so hopefully someone can take a look and give me a pointer or two!

Thanks in advance!

Here's some of the code:

User controller file:

class UsersController < ApplicationController

  def index
  end

  def show
    @user = User.find(params[:id])
  end

  def new
    @user = User.new
  end

  def create
    @user = User.new(params[user_params])
    if @user.save
      flash[:success] = "Welcome to FFBL!"
      redirect_to @user
    else
      render 'new'
    end
  end


  private

    def user_params
      params.require(:user).permit(:name, :email, :team, :password,
                                   :password_confirmation)
    end

end

Model user.rb file:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :name,     presence: true, length: { maximum: 50 }
  VALID_EMAIL_REGEX = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z\d\-]+)*\.[a-z]+\z/i
  validates :email,    presence: true, length: { maximum: 255 },
                       format: { with: VALID_EMAIL_REGEX },
                       uniqueness: { case_sensitive: false }
  before_save { self.email = email.downcase }
  validates :team,     presence: true, length: { maximum: 50 }
  has_secure_password
  validates :password, presence: true, length: { minimum: 6 }

end

View new.html.erb file (HTML Form):

<% provide(:title, "Sign up") %>
<h1>Sign Up</h1>

<div class="row">
  <div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-3">
    <%= form_for(@user) do |f| %>
      <%= render 'shared/error_messages' %>

      <%= f.label :name %>
      <%= f.text_field :name, class: 'form-control' %>

      <%= f.label :email %>
      <%= f.email_field :email, class: 'form-control' %>

      <%= f.label :team %>
      <%= f.text_field :team, class: 'form-control' %>

      <%= f.label :password %>
      <%= f.password_field :password, class: 'form-control' %>

      <%= f.label :password_confirmation, "Confirmation" %>
      <%= f.password_field :password_confirmation, class: 'form-control' %>

      <%= f.submit "Create FFBL Team", class: "btn btn-primary" %>
    <% end %>
  </div>
</div>

And finally, the Shared _error_messages.html.erb:

<% if @user.errors.any? %>
  <div id="error_explanation">
    <div class="alert alert-danger">
      The form contains <%= pluralize(@user.errors.count, "error") %>.
    </div>
    <ul>
    <% @user.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
      <li><%= msg %></li>
    <% end %>
    </ul>
  </div>
<% end %>

Answer 1 · 2015-07-01T01:31:39Z

July 1, 2015 1:31am

Looking over the code from ODOT and railstutorial.org the strong params function is supposed to be used on its own, not by params[user_params].

 def create
    @user = User.new(user_params)
    # ...

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