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Posted by Dario Hunt
Dario Hunt
2,245 Points

Rails gem acts_as_follower create/destroy error: Couldn't find Member(user) with id="username"

I'm not sure how to fix this error I'm getting when trying to create a follow relationship:

Couldn't find Member with id=testuser1

app/controllers/follows_controller.rb:6:in `create'

Parameters:

{"_method"=>"post",
"authenticity_token"=>"FnqLCCQYcFGMerOB56/G6dlPvzpPhPDFbxCXaiDBOUU=",
"member_id"=>"testuser1"}

Here's my controller:

class FollowsController < ApplicationController

before_filter :authenticate_member!

def create
    @member = Member.find(params[:member_id])
    current_member.follow(@member)
end

def destroy
    @member = Member.find(params[:member_id])
    current_member.stop_following(@member)
end

end

My links to follow/unfollow:

<%= link_to("Follow", member_follows_path(member.to_param), :method => :post, :class => "btn") %>

<%= link_to("Following", member_follow_path(member.to_param, current_member.get_follow(member).id), :method => :delete, :class => "btn btn-follow") %>

And how I defined my to_param since usernames are how you get to someones profile:

def to_param
  user_name
end

Anyone out there know how I can go about fixing this? Thanks.

1 Answer

Dario Hunt
Dario Hunt
2,245 Points

Ok I figured this one out. I needed to remove the to_param from my links and pass the id instead.

Dario Hunt
Dario Hunt
2,245 Points

Another way to do this would be to change the find in my controller to find_by_user_name