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Ruby Rails Routes and Resources Routes to Create Actions Controller Action to Create Pets

Posted by Marcela Jackowski
Marcela Jackowski
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I cannot guidance for this question, take the pet parameter group returned from require, and use the permit method on it

take the pet parameter group returned from require, and use the permit method on it to allow the name parameter. Can someone give guidance. Thanks

app/controllers/pets_controller.rb 
class PetsController < ApplicationController

  def show
    @pet = Pet.find(params[:id])
  end

  def new
    @pet = Pet.new
  end

  def create
    pet_params = permit(:name)
    @pet = Pet.new(pet_params)
    @pet.save
  end

end

1 Answer

Jay McGavren
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Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

You're close! To clear Task 1, I'm guessing you wrote code like this:

  def create
    pet_params = params.require(:pet)
  end

That stored the set of parameters you need in the pet_params variable. Now, you need to take the value in pet_params, and call permit on that:

  def create
    pet_params = params.require(:pet)
    pet_params = pet_params.permit(:name)
  end

Or, you can save yourself some typing and just call permit directly on the value returned from require, and assign that to the pet_params variable:

  def create
    pet_params = params.require(:pet).permit(:name)
  end