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Posted by Chris .
Chris .
1,133 Points

RoR Beginner Project: Creating relationships

Hello, everybody I am having trouble getting around the "NoMethodError in Statuses#show"/undefined method `first_name'. I read the other posts of people who have had the same issue in the past and have tried several things already -- rails console delete statuses/users, rake db:reset/create/migrate. So, I dug into my sqlite3 database and noticed that the user_id row is not populating (remains blank) when I post a new status. Any thoughts on how to get it to add the appropriate user_id when they post a status? *I am running ruby 2.0.0p247 and rails 4.0.0.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

can you show us the code you are trying. Particularly the #show action in the statuses controller. Also, your #new and #create, so probably best to just copy the whole statuses controller.

Also, Rails 4 changes things from Rails 3.2.12 (which is the one the videos use). That could cause issues.

Chris .
Chris .
1,133 Points

Hey Brandon, thank you for your quick response. I found the origin of my error in my status_controller.rb. I changed the status_params to accept :user_id rather than :name. For anyone else who has the same problem, feel free to check out my code below:

private
   def set_status
     @status = Status.find(params[:id])
   end

   def status_params
     params.require(:status).permit(:user_id, :content)
   end
end

Cheers, Chris

1 Answer

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Just a heads-up: our videos use rails 3.2.12 and Ruby 1.9.3. For the most part, using ruby 2.0 will be fine but there will be a lot of differences between rails 4 and 3 that may be painful to work through.