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Ruby Rails Routes and Resources A Route to an Index Action Adding Records via Rails Console

Posted by David Thrower
David Thrower
6,693 Points

Console gives me NameError: undefined local variable or method `page' for main:Object on > page.title = "lorem ipsum"

OK so i follow all the steps to here verbatim with the same results up to here. The controller and model are there, the migration has been run, and etc. I get to the console to add dummy records:

$ rails c
....
> Page.all
"Page Load (1.4ms)  SELECT "pages".* FROM "pages"
 => #<ActiveRecord::Relation []>" 
> Page.new
-> <Page id: nil, title: nil, body: nil, slug: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>
page.title = "lorem ipsum"

-> NameError: undefined local variable or method `page' for main:Object

(then lots of stack tracings)

Yes, I did check that the capitalization / pluralization is correct. Anyone know what this is wrong?

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi David,

Did you get this fixed?

From what I can see, you have not assigned your new Page instance into the variable page so when you try to set the title attribute, the console doesn't know what page is.

To fix this, assign the result of calling new into page:

page = Page.new

I hope that helps.

Steve.