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Ruby

Posted by Drew Konopasek
Drew Konopasek
5,055 Points

Trouble Creating Profile Page

Hey everyone so I am on the creating a ruby application portion of the ruby track. I am following along with Jason and am trying to create the user profile page. Everytime I go to localhost:3000/drewkono13 I keep getting the error

/home/treehouse/projects/Viewbly/app/controllers/profiles_controller.rb:8: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting keyword_end render file: 'public/404', status: 404 formats: [:html] ^

Currently I have all the code exactly like Jason has on his minus instead of it saying "@user = User.find_by_profile_name(params[:id])" it says "@user = User.find_by_username(params[:id])" This is because my users table uses username instead of profile_name

All the code looks like it should be running smooth when I try to create the account. However, I am wondering if it is the differences between ruby 3 that Jason is on and ruby version 4 that I am on that is causing this error to appear. Thank you all for your help.

Twiz T
Twiz T
12,588 Points

Can you post the contents of the file

/home/treehouse/projects/Viewbly/app/controllers/profiles_controller.rb ?

Looks like you may be missing an end on one of your methods in there.

4 Answers

Twiz T
Twiz T
12,588 Points

I think you need a comma after status: 404. These are options you pass to the method render so each key value pair needs to be separated by a ,

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Yeah, try that and let us know if it works.

Drew Konopasek
Drew Konopasek
5,055 Points
Drew Konopasek
Drew Konopasek
5,055 Points

Twiz T

class ProfilesController < ApplicationController

def show

@user = User.find_by_username(params[:id])

if @user

    @views = @user.views.all

    render action: :show

else
    render file: 'public/404', status: 404 formats: [:html]

end

end

end

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Go to rails console (rails c) and check if the newly created user has any data or just nil values. I'm 99% sure it's Strong Parameters problem - the main difference between Rails 3 and 4 that causes lots of frustration among Treehouse students.

Drew Konopasek
Drew Konopasek
5,055 Points
Drew Konopasek
Drew Konopasek
5,055 Points

Hey thank you guys that is what my problem was I forgot to add a comma.