No, the problem is that in his form_for he didn't pass in a Category object, but a string.
form_for :category do |f| @category should exist and be a Category model instance. The error pops up because the variable there apparently is just a string. On 17 Sep 2009, at 21:31, Eric wrote: > Is the category_id datatype a string rather than an integer? Check > your migrations. > > -eric > > On Sep 17, 9:18 am, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ive posted the following on various forums and had no reply, and was >> told this was the place were i could get an answer: >> >> Hi, As you may know I currently own and maintain dev-hq.co.uk, and >> basically ive been trying to "convert" everythig to RoR as ive been >> told this could benifit me in many ways. I asked a friend who is good >> in RoR to help me, and we managed to create an application which does >> basically everything its supposed to. However just before finishing >> the project he got bored of helping me time and time again, so there >> are some unfinished bits which I was hoping you could help with. >> First >> off im going to talk about an error I get when trying to edit/create >> new tutorials in a certain catagory. This is the error I get: >> >> Category(#47881910) expected, got String(#32601110) >> >> Ive looked everywhere for this and cant find a fix that works. Now >> because I dont want to have to post things I dont need too, Im just >> going to post the thing that I put in new and edit to get the >> catagory >> box to appear (on creation or edit its looking for the catagory >> number >> by the way): >> >> <p> >> <%= f.label :category_id %> >> <%= f.text_field :category_id %> >> </p> Best regards Peter De Berdt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
