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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Customizing Forms Installing simple_form

Posted by Benedict Allen
Benedict Allen
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NoMethodError in Statuses#show

After entering content for new status + user ID into the user ID field an error is displayed upon clicking enter.

undefined method `full_name' for nil:NilClass

<b>Name:</b> <%= @status.user.full_name %>

What could be causing this? I thought I'd followed the tutorial to the letter

1 Answer

Raymond Wach
Raymond Wach
7,961 Points
Raymond Wach
Raymond Wach
7,961 Points

This kind of error message typically happens when you have code along the lines of:

puts myVariable.full_name

But it turns out that myVariable is unassigned and consequently has the value nil. Look at the object you are calling full_name on and make sure that it is getting assigned properly.