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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Creating an Authentication System Generating the User Model

Posted by Jahveed Shirzad
Jahveed Shirzad
Courses Plus Student 284 Points

I keep getting a NoMethodError when trying to display the users name next to status.

NoMethodError in Statuses#show

Showing /Users/jahveedshirzad/projects/piknic/app/views/statuses/show.html.erb where line #5 raised:

undefined method `first_name' for nil:NilClass Extracted source (around line #5):

2: 3: <p> 4: <b>Name:</b> 5: <%= @status.user.first_name %> 6: </p> 7: 8: <p>

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

This suggests that when this status was created, it did not get any user assigned to it. Which version of Rails are you using? You can see the version of Rails in your Gemfile. If it only says gem 'rails', without specifying any version number, please check the Gemfile.lock. If the version number is not 3.2 or lower, we probably have our culprit and I may be able to guide you through this.

Jahveed Shirzad
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Jahveed Shirzad
Courses Plus Student 284 Points
Jahveed Shirzad
Jahveed Shirzad
Courses Plus Student 284 Points

Thank You, installed the version of ruby on rails that is used in the videos and am running fine now.

Once again thank you :)