Creating Relationships

So it sounds like the user is not being saved to the status. I recommend deleting all statuses, and trying again.

In your terminal, type:

rails console

This gets you to the database to do some work with it. Then type:

Status.delete_all

This will delete all statuses. Then go back to Treebook, and create a new status. If you get the same error, then I need to see the code in your controller, because then the status is not being assigned a user.

Hi Brandon, thanks so much for trying to help me figure this out. I got a new error message after I followed your instructions, maybe that is a good sign?

ndefined method `statuses' for nil:NilClass

Extracted source (around line #27): 25 26 27 28 29 30

# POST /statuses.json def create @status = @user.statuses.new(status_params)

respond_to do |format|
  if @status.save

Where do you define @user? That's why it's throwing an error right now.

What's your github link?

https://github.com/kuhpow/treebook

Ok, i found your error. Took me awhile because you're on Rails 4 and these videos are written for Rails 3.2

This line in your statuses controller

def status_params
  params.require(:status).permit(:name, :content)
end

Says that the params for statuses should only permit name and content. However, you want it to permit the user_id since you want the user to save to the status, so it should read:

def status_params
  params.require(:status).permit(:user_id, :content)
end

When you removed the :name from the database, you forgot to add in the :user_id. Remember this throughout your work to save a lot of headaches.

Brandon, again thank you so much for your help. However, my troubles go deep! Here is the latest error message. .. NoMethodError in StatusesController#create undefined method `statuses' for nil:NilClass

Extracted source (around line #27): 25 26 27 28 29 30

# POST /statuses.json def create @status = @user.statuses.new(status_params)

respond_to do |format|
  if @status.save

Well, I got statuses to be created once I changed that code. Make sure you are making a status with a user_id that exits in your database. In rails console, you can type

User.all

to list all the users. From there, you can make sure you pick the right user_id.

When I did that it looked like my only user was 6, so I assigned number 6 to the post, and got the same error message :( What is weird is that it shows my first, last, and profile name as nil, but when I signed up I provided all that. here is what console said

User Load (36.8ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" => #<ActiveRecord::Relation [#<User id: 6, first_name: nil, last_name: nil, profile_name: nil, email: "kuhpow@gmail.com", encrypted_password: "$2a$10$nwHodcC/aUohO0XP1cw7YetJZkJmBm/L9jg28Aw7kNr....", reset_password_token: nil, reset_password_sent_at: nil, remember_created_at: nil, sign_in_count: 1, current_sign_in_at: "2013-11-16 19:46:26", last_sign_in_at: "2013-11-16 19:46:26", current_sign_in_ip: "127.0.0.1", last_sign_in_ip: "127.0.0.1", created_at: "2013-11-16 19:46:26", updated_at: "2013-11-16 19:46:26">]>

Ok, from the console, try this:

U = User.find(6)
U.update_attributes(first_name: "put it here", last_name: "same", profile_name: "here")
U

That should help you update those fields. Then delete all statuses from the database in your console:

Status.delete_all

Then try making a new status again with id = 6.

Okay I tried that, and got this error message: NoMethodError in StatusesController#create undefined method `statuses' for nil:NilClass

Then I'm not sure, I'm out of ideas. You can try pushing through, eventually in the create action you remove the user_id input in the form and just assign the current_user to the user_id in the status.

well thanks anyway for your help, I appreciate it

This worked for me! Thanks Brandon! I had been stuck on it for some time now!