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Niels Siskens
6,661 PointsTreebook App - Having issues with first_name
If you have been struggling like me, you immediately recognise the problem. When I am trying to show the first name in this exercise (Programming Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Customizing Forms Creating Relationships), it won't show the actual name of the person, but gives an error, which is: undefined method `first_name' for nil:NilClass
what could this be?
3 Answers
Niels Siskens
6,661 PointsHi Derrick,
Seems like my ID got 2 rather than 1. So in the video it says you should use 1, but in my case it was 2 and it passed without a problem!
I am now doing validations, so got moving on!
Thanks
Niels
Derrick Mull
18,518 PointsSounds like you still have statuses with no(nil) User information. Make sure the old statuses with no User information are deleted.
Rails is complaining that there is no "first_name" information available and is telling you there is nil to retrieve from status.user.first_name.
Tim Urista
Courses Plus Student 13,462 PointsYes, I found using id 2 works. Perhaps the -rm command didn't reset the user_id #, so when we added our user profile again, the user_id was set to 2.