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Posted by Daniel Terreros
Daniel Terreros
Courses Plus Student 6,178 Points

ActionController::ParameterMissing: param not found: status

If you're building treebook in the currently unsupported (to this tutorial), rails 4. You may come across this error at the end of the in the Join Table video. Specifically the "should not update the status if nothing has changed" test in statuses_controller_test.rb.

 1) Error:
StatusesControllerTest#test_should_not_update_the_status_if_nothing_has_changed:
ActionController::ParameterMissing: param not found: status
app/controllers/statuses_controller.rb:82:in `status_params'
app/controllers/statuses_controller.rb:54:in `block in update'
app/controllers/statuses_controller.rb:53:in `update'
test/controllers/statuses_controller_test.rb:94:in `block in             <class:StatusesControllerTest>'

I believe this has to do with a change to the rails require behavior mentioned here, that returns a 400 error when the value for the required key is empty.

Anyone else run into this?

3 Answers

Brijesh Bharadwaj
Brijesh Bharadwaj
4,705 Points

My workaround

def status_params
  params.require(:status).permit(:name, :content, :user_id) if params[:status]
end
Jake Rorrer
Jake Rorrer
17,788 Points

That did the trick... thanks Brijesh!

Natalie Arellano
Natalie Arellano
3,362 Points

Hmmm...but now when I do this I get:

1) Error: StatusesControllerTest#test_should_not_update_the_status_if_nothing_has_changed: ArgumentError: When assigning attributes, you must pass a hash as an argument. app/controllers/statuses_controller.rb:51:in `block in update' app/controllers/statuses_controller.rb:50:in `update' test/controllers/statuses_controller_test.rb:89:in `block in <class:StatusesControllerTest>'

Anyone else see this?

Seph Cordovano
Seph Cordovano
17,400 Points

Thanks! That helped!

Tanner Brandt
Tanner Brandt
12,044 Points

Thank you, Brijesh!!

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Daniel Terreros sorry for the trouble! We'll be coming out with Rails 4 videos as soon as we can. In the mean time, you can use Rails 3.2.13 to follow along with the videos.

Daniel Terreros
Daniel Terreros
Courses Plus Student 6,178 Points

I'm having fun running into and trying to fix these errors, but thank you for responding!

Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Cheers! Check out the documentation on strong parameters for tips :)

Mike Mayer
Mike Mayer
2,151 Points
Mike Mayer
Mike Mayer
2,151 Points

Jason Seifer it would be awesome if you guys could post a 'solved' version of Treebook using Rails 4 for us to tutor ourselves on how to work through these challenges.

Maybe take a completed Rails 3 version and refactor with notes?? That would be amazing!

Thank you