Adding comments

Heya,

I’ve been toying around a little more with rails and getting the hang of
it. Nonetheless the, most likely, easiest thing for you i can’t achieve
somehow. I’m trying to add some comments to my post(complaint)(Same way
the starter tutorial does
it(http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.htm)) but i can’t seem
to get it to work. It goes to complaints/3/comments and gives me a blank
page. There is a record being created in my database, but except for the
complaint_id it’s empty and the create function doesn’t redirect me back
to the complaint it should be redirecting to. Could you guys take a look
at my code?

The create function in comments_controller.rb
def create
@complaint = Complaint.find(params[:complaint_id])
@comment = @complaint.comments.create(params[:form])
respond_to do |format|
if @comment.save
else
flash[:notice] = “Fail!”
end
redirect_to complaint_path(@complaint)
end
end

The form in comments/_form.html.erb which is rendered in my
complaints/show view

<%= form_for([@complaints, @complaints.comments.build]) do |f| %>

<%= f.label :name %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
<%= f.label :comment %>
<%= f.text_area :comment %>
<%= f.submit %>
<% end %>

Thanks in advance

Try this:
controller:
def create
@complaint = Complaint.find(params[:complaint_id])
@comment = @complaint.comments.create(params[:comment])
respond_to do |format|
unless @comment.save
flash[:notice] = “Fail!”
end
format.html { redirect_to complaint_path(@complaint) }
end
end

check the params array. While creating the comments, pass the params
array
appropriately. I think may be that’s where the problem lies. As for
redirect to another page, you need to write your redirect statements in
“format.html { redirect_to …}”

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Timen E. [email protected] wrote:

to the complaint it should be redirecting to. Could you guys take a look
end
<%= f.label :name %>

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Thanks,
Aash

On 26 June 2012 09:28, Timen E. [email protected] wrote:

to the complaint it should be redirecting to. Could you guys take a look
at my code?

Have a look at the Rails Guide on Debugging, that will show you
techniques that you can use to debug the code and work out what is
going on.

Colin