protected method `around_validation' called for #<StateMachine::Machine:0xba3014ec>

Question

Hello please help I followed all the steps that Catlin explained, but when I try to create a time entry in the employee page I get the error

it says the problem is the file time_entries_controller.rb line 4

this is the line

e.time_entries.create(params.require(:time_entry).permit(:time, :account_id))

Any idea what did I do wrong?

Answer 1 · 2014-12-20T18:25:17Z

December 20, 2014 6:25pm

Finally I could fix it, that's a bug of the state model https://github.com/pluginaweek/state_machine/issues/251

One solution is to make the around_validation method public, here is the procedure:

Create a file patch state_machine_patch.rb in config/initializers

and paste this code in that file:

module StateMachine
  module Integrations
     module ActiveModel
        public :around_validation
     end
  end
end

after this your problems are gonna be fixed, but if you still get problems read this comment on the issue https://github.com/pluginaweek/state_machine/issues/251#issuecomment-32133267

Hope it helps someone else

Answer 2 · 2015-11-13T16:12:24Z

November 13, 2015 4:12pm

I had this same error and solved it by adding

gem 'state_machines-activerecord'

to the gemfile

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