Newbie:problem when using validates*

Hi,

I have performed the cookbook tutorial. Before tailoring the views and
controllers, when I put in the model recipe.rb:

validates_uniqueness_of :title
validates_length_of :title, :within => 1…20

And I tried to introduce some new recipe without the above conditions I
got the message:


New recipe
1 error prohibited this category from being saved

There were problems with the following fields:

 * Name is too short (minimum is 1 characters)

Name
Back

So, just fine. But after tailoring the views and controller I’m not
longer able to get this, just this one:

NoMethodError in Recipe#create

Showing app/views/recipe/new.rhtml where line #27 raised:

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.each

Extracted source (around line #27):

24:


25: Categoria:

26:
27: <% @categories.each do |category| %>
28:
29: <%= category.name %>
30:

Why the sentences in the model

Some ideas?

BR

Antonio

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NoMethodError in Recipe#create

Showing app/views/recipe/new.rhtml where line #27 raised:

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.each

Extracted source (around line #27):

24:


25: Categoria:

26:
27: <% @categories.each do |category| %>
28:
29: <%= category.name %>
30:

Why the sentences in the model

Some ideas?

BR

Antonio

Just to be sure… you did define @categories in your controller right?
something like…

 def new
    @categories = Catgory.find(:all)
 end

if you didn’t then you would most definately get that error.

jon

Just to be sure… you did define @categories in your controller right?
something like…

 def new
    @categories = Catgory.find(:all)
 end

Yes I did. Don’t know what part of the controller conflicts with the
model. Actually, instead of using ‘recipe’ I’m using ‘article’ so the
model article.rb looks:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

belongs_to :category
validates_uniqueness_of :title
validates_length_of :title, :within => 1…20

end

The article_controller.rb is:

class ArticleController < ApplicationController

     scaffold :article

     def index
         list
         render_action 'list'
     end

     def list
             @category = @params['category']
             @articles = Article.find_all
     end

     def edit
             @article = Article.find(@params["id"])
             @categories = Category.find_all
     end

     def new
             @article = Article.new
             @categories = Category.find_all
     end

     def create
             @article = Article.new(@params['article'])
             @article.created = Date.today
             if @article.save
                     redirect_to :action => 'list'
             else
                     render_action 'new'
             end
     end

     def delete
             Article.find(@params['id']).destroy
             redirect_to :action => 'list'
end

end

And the view for a new article is new.rhtml:

Nuevo Articulo

Nuevo Articulo

Titulo

Descripcion

Categoria:
<% @categories.each do |category| %> <%= category.name %>

<% end %>

Volver </html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any idea?

Cheers

Antonio

if you didn’t then you would most definately get that error.

jon

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I recently had this very same problem using collection_select.

The problem lies in that the create method does not actually run the
new method on error. So what happens is category is null when your
validation fails.

You have to do a find for your categories in the create method as
well. Like so:

   def create
             @article = Article.new(@params['article'])
             @article.created = Date.today
             if @article.save
                     redirect_to :action => 'list'
             else
		@categories = Category.find_all
                     render_action 'new'
             end
     end

I posed the question that this seems to defeat the DRY methodology? I
personally do not know Ruby well enough to identify maybe a better way.

Thanks,
Phill

Does your view have a place to display errors? Such as:

<%= error_messages_for ‘articles’ %>

Also I noticed you still have

scaffold :article

in your controller. You may want to copy your controller code you
have so far and rebuild using

./script/generate scaffold ModelName ControllerName

at the command line. Then merge your changes. The scaffold call in
your controller may be interfering with your methods in your controller.

I had to add the find code to all form methods in my controller -
edit, new, create, and update. Your update method must be coming
from your scaffold :article line.

Thanks,
phill

Phillip Novess
escribió:> @article = Article.new(@params[‘article’])

            @article.created = Date.today
            if @article.save
                    redirect_to :action => 'list'
            else
  	  @categories = Category.find_all
                    render_action 'new'
            end
    end 

Getting better

Now I do not have any message. The ‘New article’ template does nothing
just waits for the right insert. But doesn’t alert me about duplicate or
empty fields.

Cheers,

Antonio

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Also I noticed you still have

scaffold :article

in your controller. You may want to copy your controller code you
have so far and rebuild using

./script/generate scaffold ModelName ControllerName

Thanks,
phill

I agree! that was the first thing i noticed about all that code. i’ve
never had a problem with a scaffold before.

Jon