NoMethodError in Statuses#index

Well, using rake db:reset did the trick for me too. I'm guessing that it has something to do with our "old" user inconsistent with how it should be setup under "Devise". Anyway, +1 on the need to clarify why this happened.

EDIT: Ok, I feel stupid. Jim actually refers to this error a bit around 07:10 in the video :-)

Aha! Now I see it.

Just incase anyone is still a little confused with this, it's because we're trying to output the id or name (depending on what you had to output) for a status that doesn't yet have a user ID associated with it. We can't output something that doesn't exist.

rake db:reset

Will sort out the issue because it will remove all statuses, so when you enter new ones, they will have ID's associated with them. Or you could just do what Jim does in the video and delete the statuses you know haven't got anything associated with them just yet.

Hope this clears it up for anyone who got stuck as long as I did getting such a simple concept understood when faced with that error!

I'm stuck here, too. Was just about to post the same topic before seeing yours.

Here is my status model:

class Status < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :content, :user_id
  belongs_to :user
end

And here is my erb tag in show.html.erb

<%= @status.user.first_name %>

Any help would be awesome.

After digging around in the forum, I managed to get it working. I'm not sure about you, Nick, you may have futher issues with your code because I didn't change any of mine.

I used the command:

rake db:reset

After running that, all my data was gone but I didn't get the error once I had created a new status, it showed my user OK.

It would still be good to hear from someone as to why I had to do this and Jim didn't in the video?

Hope this helps you.