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Ruby Building Social Features in Ruby on Rails Building the Friendship UI Saving Models and Redirecting

Fausto Teles
Fausto Teles
1,419 Points
Posted by Fausto Teles
Fausto Teles
1,419 Points

Guys, I can't figure out what's wrong with my code in "Saving Models and Redirecting - Challange Task 1 of 3".

The challenge asks: Set the flash success message to "Friendship created." if the @user_friendship is saved.

I tried several codes and none have worked. I think the code attached should work, but it doesn't.

user_friendships_controller.rb 
class UserFriendshipsController < ApplicationController
  def create
    if @user_friendship.save
      flash[:success] = "Friendship created."
    end
  end
end
Jonathan Chua
Jonathan Chua
4,136 Points
Jonathan Chua
Jonathan Chua
4,136 Points

Sorry, I tried lots of code combos too, but can't get the challenge to pass... Maybe the Treehouse guys need to look at this.

2 Answers

Paul Ogawa
Paul Ogawa
6,570 Points

You have to create the @user first

 class UserFriendshipsController < ApplicationController

 def create

    @user_friendship=User.new

    if @user_friendship.save

      flash[:success] = "Friendship created."

    end

  end

end
Fausto Teles
Fausto Teles
1,419 Points
Fausto Teles
Fausto Teles
1,419 Points

At least we're not alone then :)