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Posted by Seth Duncan
Seth Duncan
10,339 Points

User ID doesn't save after adding it to Status Form View

After adding in the following

<%= f.input :user_id %> to the Status Form View I go to try and submit it and instead of getting the expected error because the attribute isn't set as accessible the form submits, but doesn't even pass the user_id.

Looking into the terminal for any errors I see this:

Unpermitted parameters: user_id (0.1ms) begin transaction SQL (3.4ms) INSERT INTO "statuses" ("content", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES (?, ?, ?) [["content", "ABC"], ["created_at", Sun, 11 Aug 2013 09:13:16 UTC +00:00], ["updated_at", Sun, 11 Aug 2013 09:13:16 UTC +00:00]]

Whether I set the user_id to accessible or not via:

attr_accessible :content, :user_id

It doesn't save the value, and thus when I go to edit the status that was added, user_id isn't pulled because it's never saved.(Confirmed via rails console as well).

What do I have to do to make user_id a permitted attribute ?

Thanks.

1 Answer

Seth Duncan
Seth Duncan
10,339 Points

Andrew,

Yes I was, but I got passed this issue by inspecting the Status Controller and adding user_id to status_params like so.

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

Not sure where I missed anything that would cause this, but all is well that ends well.

Thanks for checking in though.

-Seth