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Posted by Michael Leonard
Michael Leonard
866 Points

undefined method `first_name' for nil:NilClass

Hi,

Im receiving this error even after reseting the db and deleting all users and statuses. Can seem to find the issue.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

3 Answers

Michael Leonard
Michael Leonard
866 Points
Michael Leonard
Michael Leonard
866 Points

instead of calling status.user.first_name in index.erb i changed it to full_name and now im getting this error:

undefined method `user' for nil:NilClass

Rodrigo Soares
Rodrigo Soares
2,460 Points
Rodrigo Soares
Rodrigo Soares
2,460 Points

Michael you should provide us with more information so we can help you.

What project are you developing? Treebook?

You should copy your user controller and model in here.

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

I'm 99% sure this is because you are using Rails 4 and not 3 (there are significant differences that prevent you from following this project line by line with Rails 4). What does your Gemfile say? It has the line with gem 'rails' and rails version follows. If it's 4.0, there's your culprit.