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• Hey bud, I should mention that some of what I was saying about user_id's is explained if you keep watching the video.
• Sorry this is so messy, I tried to format it but it just crunched it up. Is there some way to force spacing and line break?

Hey Griffin,

Well I guess I did. Here's what's up. I was up until about 4 last night trying to solve this. Three things contributed to me getting passed this problem.

1) I more or less copied someone's project I found on Github, file by file

2) My DB was messed up? I don't know how.

3) If you try to post a new status, but don't define a valid user_id in the form, your list of statuses will never display because it will keep trying to display a status that has a user_id that doesn't pertain to a user with a first and last name. So when you post a message, if you are typing 3...4...5... into the first box, it will break.

So you will need to clear out your statuses every time you screw up.

     rails console

     Status.delete_all

     exit

This was really the main problem I was having. The other guy's solution was cool. He provided a drop down menu that lists all known users and lets you select one. I'm currently trying to force the user to be the person who is signed in.

Here is how I "reset" my database to get a fresh one.

bundle exec rake db:reset

bundle exec rake db:migrate

Here is the guy's project that I referenced:

https://github.com/stshoot/treebook

To get it I just:

made an empty directory

went in it and did 'git init'

then 'git clone [his address from his github]'

went inside that folder

ran 'bundle'

ran 'rake db:migrate'

ran 'rails s'

Here is my project:

https://github.com/Captainlonate/treebook

A couple of things I noticed ( but perhaps didn't understand )...

1) My application_controller.rb needed some code added to it to work

2) status_params inside of statuses_controller.rb is where you add the "attr_accessible" stuff from the videos.

Mine looks like this:

 def status_params

       params.require(:status).permit(:content, :user_id)

 end

3) Some people on here recommended getting a different gem, it was called "protected " something... anyways I didn't find that necessary.

If none of that made sense to you... go get that guy's project and start comparing it to yours. Make sure that when you post a message, you signed in and used a valid user_id in the first input box. Also, Make your two controllers look like mine.

Let me know if I can help somehow.

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