Oh, and btw, those railscasts did really help!!!! (although I didnt
yet see this reply to the thread when I was chekin em out)

On Sep 18, 3:35 pm, Joe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Acctually it was just because I had another variable called catagory.
> Soz i took so long to reply.
>
> Ive basically sorted all out now (by myself thank you very much), soz
> for wasted thread.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
> On Sep 18, 9:12 am, Peter De Berdt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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
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