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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Adding Todo Items

Dawid Cedrych
Dawid Cedrych
15,108 Points
Posted by Dawid Cedrych
Dawid Cedrych
15,108 Points

Keep getting the error "Unable to find field "Content"

I checked the project several times and everything seems to be alright, exactly the same as Jason showed on video.

Did any of you guys had this kind of issue?

Here is a link to the project https://github.com/thedc89/TodoList

Thanks in advance

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Your todo_items new view does not output anything. It should look like this:

<%= form_for [@todo_list, @todo_item] do |form| %>
  <%= form.label :content %>
  <%= form.text_field :content %>

  <%= form.submit "Save" %>
<% end %>

Notice two changes: the = sign before form_for and a space after text_field, before the %>.

Dawid Cedrych
Dawid Cedrych
15,108 Points
Dawid Cedrych
Dawid Cedrych
15,108 Points

Thanks a lot! My debugging should be more detailed!:)

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Just do manually what the test is doing and you will know what went wrong ;)

Leo Brown
Leo Brown
6,896 Points
Leo Brown
Leo Brown
6,896 Points

I had this issue and it was because I wasn't consistent with capitalizing Content v. content.