Help: wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)

Is it my environment? Is something wrong, cause I thought this should
just work?

I have a simple table and I created a model and a controller:

ruby script/generate controller Restaurant
ruby script/generate model Restaurant

I edited the controller to this:

class RestaurantController < ApplicationController
scaffold :Restaurant
end

I run it and:

http://0.0.0.0:3000/Restaurant works fine, gives me a list of
restaurants.

If I click on edit though I get this:

Showing
usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/templates/scaffolds/edit.rhtml
where line #4 raised:

wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)
Extracted source (around line #4):

1:

Editing <%= @scaffold_singular_name %>


2:
3: <%= error_messages_for(@scaffold_singular_name) %>
4: <%= form(@scaffold_singular_name, :action =>
“update#{@scaffold_suffix}”) %>
5:
6: <%= link_to “Show”, :action => “show#{@scaffold_suffix}”, :id =>
instance_variable_get(“@#{@scaffold_singular_name}”) %> |
7: <%= link_to “Back”, :action => “list#{@scaffold_suffix}” %>

Likewise if I click on New:

ArgumentError in Restaurant#new

Showing
usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/templates/scaffolds/new.rhtml
where line #4 raised:

wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)
Extracted source (around line #4):

1:

New <%= @scaffold_singular_name %>


2:
3: <%= error_messages_for(@scaffold_singular_name) %>
4: <%= form(@scaffold_singular_name, :action =>
“create#{@scaffold_suffix}”) %>
5:
6: <%= link_to “Back”, :action => “list#{@scaffold_suffix}” %>

Here’s my table definition;

CREATE TABLE restaurants (
id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘’,
phone VARCHAR(14) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘’,
fax VARCHAR(14) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘’,
email VARCHAR(100) DEFAULT ‘’,
web VARCHAR(100) DEFAULT ‘’,
address1 VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘’,
address2 VARCHAR(100) DEFAULT ‘’,
city VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘’,
state CHAR(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘’,
zip VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘’,
open BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
PRIMARY KEY(id)
)
ENGINE = InnoDB
CHARACTER SET utf8;

This on Mac OSX. I set up Ruby and Rails accoring to this:

You want

scaffold :restaurant

note lowercase ‘r’

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Scaffolding/ClassMethods.html#M000137

for the complete documentation and example.

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Thanks Steve

I have tried both upper an lower case ‘r’ and the behaviour is the same
regardless. Any other suggestions?

Steve R. wrote:

You want

scaffold :restaurant

note lowercase ‘r’

Peak Obsession

for the complete documentation and example.

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Typically, I use singular for models and plural for controllers, but I’m
not
sure that’s it. You could give it a try by:

script/destroy controller Restaurant
script/create controller Restaurants

This is just a guess, though.

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The error is telling you that you have supplied too many arguments to
the form method. See the following on using the form method:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/ActiveRecordHelper.html#M000458

I think from you code that you only need to name the action and not the
@scaffold stuff in the hash. Rails should already know what controller
you are trying to access intuitively, but it looks like you are trying
to tell it what controller in the :action argument…you could also try:

:controller => @scaffold_whatever, :action => ‘create’

Just taking a stab :wink:

Cheers,
David

Yes, I guessed that is what it is complaining about. I guess my real
question is, since I have NO custom code whatsoever other than the one
scaffold line in the controller is why doesn’t this work? The code is
generated by ROR as a result of the scaffold line. Is it generating bad
code?

This is after all the first step in every Ruby on Rails tutorial out
there and it’s only parially working for me (list, show ok, edit, new
not). I have tried various combinations on upper case and singlular,
plural to no avail.

My rails experiment is coming of the tracks remarkably quickly :frowning:

David H. wrote:

The error is telling you that you have supplied too many arguments to
the form method. See the following on using the form method:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/ActiveRecordHelper.html#M000458

I think from you code that you only need to name the action and not the
@scaffold stuff in the hash. Rails should already know what controller
you are trying to access intuitively, but it looks like you are trying
to tell it what controller in the :action argument…you could also try:

:controller => @scaffold_whatever, :action => ‘create’

Just taking a stab :wink:

Cheers,
David

You can not have a column called open in your database. The problem is
that RoR creates a class with the database with all the columns as
method names. And the class inherits ActionRecord. And open is a
method that is neccesary for ActionRecord and you basically are trying
to overwrite that. So when ActionRecord tries to open a connection to
database all the sudden it finds that the open method has been
changed.

I had the same problem while trying to create a controller with an
action called send.

So rename your database column “open” into something like “is_open”

A list of Reserved Words is findable here:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/ReservedWords

On 5/4/06, Donald B. [email protected] wrote:

class RestaurantController < ApplicationController
Showing
“update#{@scaffold_suffix}”) %>
usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/templates/scaffolds/new.rhtml
5:
email VARCHAR(100) DEFAULT ‘’,
CHARACTER SET utf8;
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Donald B. wrote:

My rails experiment is coming of the tracks remarkably quickly :frowning:
What’s the full stack trace? I can’t see how the ‘wrong number of
arguments’ exception can have been raised by the form() line, so I’m
guessing it’s somewhere lower. I can’t think I’ve ever seen this
before…

Ahhhhhhhh

Thank you!!

When your new error messages can be so inscrutable.

Jón Borgþórsson wrote:

You can not have a column called open in your database. The problem is
that RoR creates a class with the database with all the columns as
method names. And the class inherits ActionRecord. And open is a
method that is neccesary for ActionRecord and you basically are trying
to overwrite that. So when ActionRecord tries to open a connection to
database all the sudden it finds that the open method has been
changed.

I had the same problem while trying to create a controller with an
action called send.

So rename your database column “open” into something like “is_open”

A list of Reserved Words is findable here:
Peak Obsession

On 5/4/06, Donald B. [email protected] wrote:

class RestaurantController < ApplicationController
Showing
“update#{@scaffold_suffix}”) %>
usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/templates/scaffolds/new.rhtml
5:
email VARCHAR(100) DEFAULT ‘’,
CHARACTER SET utf8;
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Yeah. Technically this is a feature in Ruby. :slight_smile: Allowing you to
overwrite everything for if you need something different for this one
thing. Problem is that you just have to remember a whole lot of
things.

On 5/5/06, Donald B. [email protected] wrote:

method names. And the class inherits ActionRecord. And open is a
A list of Reserved Words is findable here:

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
[email protected]
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