Thanks radhames! I finally got it to work, it turned out that i didn't need to define @user in my home action, and it was causing the error. Sorry if my description was unclear. Thanks for your help!
// Anders On 12 Sep, 20:41, radhames brito <[email protected]> wrote: > it the route you set a requirement but you could access the client with a > query, something like this > > link_to <http://user.name/>"Home", root_path(:id=>@user.id) > > but what this does is add this to the url string > > ?id=1 > > and is not what you want since people can still access the original with > out ?id=1 gicing user the same message > so what you do is create a route like this > > match 'products/:id' => 'catalog#view' <============copied from the > routes.rb comments > > you see here the id is specified that means that it the user access product > with no id the message will be > > no routes matched /products > > and that is what we want, not an error in the controller is just that there > is no page in the site you can access without specifing > the id. > > conclusion > is not a good idea to have a root route that requieres an id instead > > match 'pages/:id' => 'pages#home' > > and > > root :to => "welcome#index" > > > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Anders_P <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi radhames! > > > So the problem lies in my routes!?!, do you have any suggestion on how > > it should look? > > > Thanks! > > > // Anders > > > On 12 Sep, 04:48, radhames brito <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ok there is a problem > > > > @user = User.find(params[:id]) <================= params[:id] is > > pulled > > > from the url query string > > > > in rails the convention is this > > > > /controller/action/id > > > > in cases there you need to pull one specific record > > > > /controller/action > > > > to pull a collection > > > > @user = User.find(params[:id]) > > > > here you are pulling an specific user but > > > > root :to => 'pages#home' > > > > there is no id at the end of your so params[:id] has nothing in it > > > > thats why Couldn't find User without an ID > > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Anders_P <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Thanks for your tips Colin! > > > > > Hi radhames! > > > > > Thanks for your help on my previous topic. > > > > > Here is my routes.rb file: > > > > > resources :users > > > > resources :sessions, :only => [:new, :create, :destroy] > > > > resources :ads, :only => [:new, :create, :destroy] > > > > > match '/registrera', :to => 'users#new' > > > > > match '/inloggning', :to => 'sessions#new' > > > > match '/utloggning', :to => 'sessions#destroy' > > > > > root :to => 'pages#home' > > > > match '/kontakt', :to => 'pages#contact' > > > > match '/om', :to => 'pages#about' > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > // Anders > > > > > On 11 Sep, 19:21, radhames brito <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > home action seems to be a member restful action and it needs an id to > > > > find > > > > > the record but you are not declaring that route the right way > > > > > show the routes please > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > On 11 September 2010 12:14, Anders_P <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Could you not top post please, it is easier to follow the thread if > > > > > > comments are inserted into the previous post. Thanks > > > > > > > > Hello Colin! > > > > > > > > Thanks for your reply. You are right about where the error is > > > > > > > occurring, this line is causing the error, @user = > > > > > > > User.find(params[:id]). > > > > > > > > I haven't passed the id to the home action, where should i do > > that > > > > and > > > > > > > how? Sorry for the noobish question but your help would be gold! > > > > > > > That depends what you are trying to do. If you explain that we may > > be > > > > > > able to help. If you do not know what the params hash is all about > > > > > > then you need to work through some basic tutorials. See the rails > > > > > > guides athttp://guides.rubyonrails.org/ifyouare using Rails 3 or > > > > > >http://guides.rubyonrails.org/v2.3.8/ifusingversion 2.3.x. Start > > > > > > with Getting Started obviously, then work through the others. > > > > > > > Colin > > > > > > > > On 11 Sep, 12:43, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > >> On 11 September 2010 11:34, Anders_P <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> > Hello! > > > > > > >> > I'm trying to create a list of user "ads" on my home page in > > my > > > > app. > > > > > > >> > But I don't get it to work. I'm a rails noob so it might be > > > > something > > > > > > >> > trivial. > > > > > > >> > I'm currently running into this error: > > > > > > > >> > Couldn't find User without an ID > > > > > > > >> There should be a lot more information available with the error, > > > > > > >> including where it has failed. The clue may be in the error > > message > > > > > > >> though, it is trying to find a user and there is no id. > > > > > > > >> > My pages controller where to home action is looks like this: > > > > > > > >> > def home > > > > > > >> > �...@title = "Startsidan" > > > > > > >> > �...@user = User.find(params[:id]) > > > > > > > >> Possibly this is the problem line, if so then perhaps > > params[:id] is > > > > > > >> nil (hence the error message). Have a look in the log > > > > > > >> (log/development.log) and it will tell you what the params are. > > Are > > > > > > >> you passing the id to the home action? Also you could have a > > look > > > > at > > > > > > >> the rails guide on debugging to see how to break into your > > > > application > > > > > > >> using ruby-debug and examine the data at that point. > > > > > > > >> Colin > > > > > > > >> > �...@ads = �[email protected](:page => params[:page]) > > > > > > >> > end > > > > > > > >> > And my ad partial looks like this: > > > > > > > >> > <div class="ad body_copy"> > > > > > > >> > <%= image_tag user.avatar.url(:thumb) %> > > > > > > >> > <span class="content"> > > > > > > >> > <%= link_to user.name, user %> > > > > > > >> > <%= user.ads.content %> > > > > > > >> > </span> > > > > > > >> > </div> > > > > > > > >> > Any help would be appreciated! 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