Friend required Message after "fixing the new.html.erb" file

Hi Giann Wilkerson can you post your new.html.erb file here? And the new method in the user friendships controller?

<% if @friend %>
<h1><%= @friend.full_name %></h1>

<p>Do you really want to friend <%= @friend.full_name %>?</p>
<%= form_for @user_friendship,method: :post do |form| %>
<div class="form from-actions">
 <% form.hidden_field :friends_id, value: @friend.profile_name %>
 <%= submit_tag "Yes, Add Friend", class: 'btn btn-primary' %>
 <%= link_to "Cancel",  profile_path(@friend), class: 'btn' %>
 </div>
 <% end %>
 <% end %> 




def new
if params[:friend_id]
@friend = User.find(params[:friend_id])
@user_friendship = current_user.user_friendships.new(friend: @friend)
else
flash[:error] = "Friend required"
end

rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
render file: 'public/404', status: :not_found
end

Hopefully this is what you needed. Let me know if you need more. Thank you Jason.

It looks like you need to change the controller to the following:

if params[:user_friendship] && params[:user_friendship].has_key?(:friend_id)
  ...

Jason,

I have it up on Github. My username is GIannWilk. Do you need anything else to take a look at it?

https://github.com/giannwilk/treebook

Hey Giann Wilkerson try changing your user friendships controller new method to this and everything should work:

def new
  if params.has_key?(:friend_id)
    @friend = User.find_by_profile_name(params[:friend_id])
    @user_friendship = current_user.user_friendships.new(friend: @friend)
  else
    flash[:error] = "Friend required"
  end
rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
  render file: 'public/404', status: :not_found
end

Sorry for the trouble! Looks like I told you the wrong thing above.

Hi Jason Seifer, I was wondering if you had a chance to look into the above issue. If you could offer some advice or a direction that would be perfect and much appreciated, Thanks!

Hi Giann Wilkerson sorry about that! I think I need to see your code to troubleshoot the issue. Can you push the latest version up to GitHub and I'll take a look?

No problem. Thank you for taking a look. If you could let me know what the issue is, i would greatly appreciate it so that i can try to learn from the mistakes. Thanks, Ive updated and pushed the current version to GitHub.

Hi Josh,

Im actually still stuck at this point. Jason was helping me and I assume he got extremely busy. (Never heard a response.) I would be very interested to understand what I did wrong or to get a resolution.

Hey Giann Wilkerson sorry about that! I lost track of this thread. What are you stuck on? I'll try and help out.

Hey Jason Seifer , No worries. I know you have been busy with all the new treehouse content. I was having issues with " integration testing friendship." I updated the new.html.erb file and if you click "add as friend " it still says the error message "friend required." I dont get the message as they do on the video that the friendship has been created.

I have my recent/current files updated on Git. I would appreciate any help you could provide. Please let me know if there is anything I need to do.

Thanks,

Hey Jason Seifer

Wanted to see if you had a chance to take a look at my files and could offer any suggestions to help me get back up and running?

Hey Giann Wilkerson the problem is here:

https://github.com/giannwilk/treebook/blob/master/app/views/user_friendships/new.html.erb#L8

You'll need to change it from <% to <%= to get the friend_id parameter in the form. Give that a try and let us know if it works.

Thanks for the reply Jason Seifer I made that update although I'm still receiving the "friend required" yellow error message after clicking the "Yes, Add Friend" button. Any suggestions?