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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Customizing Forms Creating Relationships

Posted by Kairos F
Kairos F
19,925 Points

user_id is not saving in the statuses table

So I'm working through this project with Rails 4 and I've altered the code to make it work thus far. Specifically I added:

def configure_permitted_parameters devise_parameter_sanitizer.for(:sign_up) << :first_name << :last_name << :profile_name devise_parameter_sanitizer.for(:account_update) << :first_name << :last_name << :profile_name end

to my application controller and now first_name etc... are saving in the user database, whereas before they were nil.

The problem I'm having now is that although I added user_id in the migration in the way specified by the tutorials, it doesn't seem to be associating correctly. I had a look at the database tables in Sqlite browser and in the status table, under the user_id field for a particular user, is just says NULL.

What am I missing? All help appreciated. Thanks.

1 Answer

Rodrigo Castro
Rodrigo Castro
15,652 Points
Rodrigo Castro
Rodrigo Castro
15,652 Points

Hi Kairos,

Try adding :user_id in the hash in the 'status_params' function inside the Statuses_Controller.rb as shown bellow:

def status_params params.require(:status).permit(<<ADD USER_ID HERE>>, :name, :content) end

hope it helps :)