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Posted by Austin Bebber
Austin Bebber
7,044 Points

Creating Relationships

Hi, I am on the treebook exercise where we add the following to the bottom of _form.html.erb

<%= f.input :user_id %>

When I go back to treebook and try to edit a status or post a new one, I get the following error message.

NoMethodError in Statuses#new

Showing C:/Users/RockyRoad/Desktop/Austin/practice/Project/treebook/app/views/statuses/_form.html.erb where line #14 raised:

undefined method `user_id' for #<Status:0x3342fc0>

Extracted source (around line #14): 11: </div> 12: <% end %> 13: <br> 14: <%= f.input :user_id %> 15: <%= f.input :content %> 16: <div class="form-actions"> 17: <%= f.button :submit %>

Thanks for the help. -Austin

1 Answer

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

I'm taking a guess here. You need to delete all your statuses because when we first made statuses, there was no user_id. So your database has some old data with no user_ids.

To do this, in your terminal, type:

rails console

That allows you to get access to your database. Then delete the statuses by using:

Status.delete_all

And before you do that, I recommend looking at:

Status.first

You should notice that the user_id column is empty. This is why you are getting the error. Likewise, you could look at:

Status.last

This should have a user_id if you recently created a status.

If none of this is the case, then we need you to paste some of your code, particularly from _form.html.erb and your statuses controller so we can help you figure out what is wrong.