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Ruby

Posted by Vanessa Montezuma
Vanessa Montezuma
1,068 Points

the user.rb file differs from the course example

I'm following the course for building my first app on ruby on rails. When I have to modify the user.rb file (app/models/user.rb) I find that it differs a few lines from the course example. This are the lines missing:

attr_accessible :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me,

When I add these lines, and run the server, I get an error message:

undefined method `attr_accessible' for #<Class:0x4050738>

I can't understand what is wrong, I've already re-check all the course up to this point.

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

The course is written in Rails 3.2 and you're most probably using version 4 or higher. This is a common problem with this course and you can either create the project again using Rails 3.2 (then you can follow the videos without problems) or try to translate it into Rails 4+, which will be challenging. You can also move to Rails 4 Todo Application course.

Here's some more info: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/attraccessible-missing-in-rails-4-heres-the-workaround-for-the-treebook-tutorial