creating relationships task

I'm having the same issues on this task. It has to be that it is outdated. I just need to figure out the new way to do it.

I'm getting a similar error. When I try to do status.user.full_name it says the full_name method is undefined even though its in my user model. So I'm confused why it's doing this. It has to be because I'm using Rails 4 and the videos uses an older version , but I can't figure out how to fix this issue for the newer version.

same here. i get the same error

You are getting this error because things aren't saved in the database properly. Yes, this is because changes introduced in Rails 4. I regularly visit the forum to inform people about all this, because video descriptions are still not updated.

You have a few choices here:

• learn more about Strong Parameters and try to use them in your application (it is a default in Rails 4, Rails 3 uses different way of handling parameters) - this is your best option, because Strong Parameters are likely here to stay and you will run into them sooner than later when working with Rails in the future.

• use protected_attributes gem in your Gemfile - this should allow you to use the Rails 3 attr_accessible and related keywords as seen on the videos, but this is a temporary solution.

• generate the whole app from scratch but using Rails 3 - this will allow you to follow the videos properly (you'd also need oilder version of Bootstrap to use styles that Jim uses in the videos) - rails _3.2.13_ new treebook - or any other version, whichever is used in the videos

I tried declaring strong params in a users controller and it's not working. I could be doing it wrong though here is my code:

private
    def user_params
      params.require(:user).permit(:user_id, :last_name, :first_name)
    end

My issue is just with full_name.

<% @statuses.each do |status| %>
  <div class="status">
    <strong><%= status.user.full_name %></strong> #This line here

I get an UndefinedMethod error, but the method is declared in my User.rb file. Someone suggested deleting what is in the database, but I don't know how to do it from console. I've tried googling a bit to find an answer on how to do that, but got side tracked by other treehouse videos lol :P

Kind of...the page actually loads now because there is no full_name to attempt to display. I created a new status and it broke on my show page:

<p>
  <strong>Name:</strong>
  <%= @status.user.full_name %> #here again
</p>

Same error too. So I took out full_name and put first_name, that breaks it too and it gives me the same error. Which I thought was interesting because that's making me think there is no first_name or last_name on the db table. I found this though inside my db > migrate:

class DeviseCreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table(:users) do |t|
      t.string :first_name
      t.string :last_name
      t.string :profile_name

So doesn't that mean my users should have a first name and last name? Or am I thinking of this problem the wrong way?

OK, now show me the status controller.