On 9 February 2011 01:59, jackster the jackle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since I upgraded from Rails 1.8.6 to 2.3.5, I just noticed that I can no
> longer add new users through my Signup page.
> Here is the error:
> NoMethodError in UserController#signup
>
> You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
> You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base.
> The error occurred while evaluating nil.save!
>
> /work/store/app/controllers/user_controller.rb:6:in `signup'
>
> Here is my Controller, line 6 is @user.save!:
> def signup
> return unless request.post?
> @user.save!
The error is telling you that @user is nil. There does not appear to
be any code setting this up, Are you sure it ever worked?
> redirect_back_or_default(:controller => 'grapher', :action =>
> 'index')
> flash[:notice] = "New User Successfully Created"
This code also looks odd, how will it get to the flash line after the
redirect? Though I may be missing what redirect_back_or_default is
supposed to do.
> rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid
More odd looking code, or did the syntax for rescue change
dramatically with Rails 2 from Rails 1
> render :action => 'signup'
> end
>
> Here is my form:
> <% form_for :user do |f| -%>
> <label for= "first_name">First Name</label>
> <%= f.text_field :first_name %>
>
> <label for= "last_name">Last Name</label>
> <%= f.text_field :last_name %>
>
> <label for= "user_login">Login</label>
> <%= f.text_field :login %>
>
> <label for= "user_email">Email</label>
> <%= f.text_field :email %>
>
> <label for= "user_password">Password</label>
> <%= f.password_field :password %>
>
> <label for= "user_password_confirmation">Confirm Password</label>
> <%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>
> <%= submit_tag 'Sign up' %>
> <% end -%>
>
> Here are my request parameters when I get the error:
> Request
> Parameters:
>
> {"user"=>{"password_confirmation"=>"password",
> "first_name"=>"john",
> "last_name"=>"smith",
> "login"=>"jsmith",
> "password"=>"password",
> "email"=>"[email protected]"},
> "commit"=>"Sign up"}
What action does the log show this is going to?
>
> It seems to me that I'm passing the correct params so I don't understand
> why I'm getting a "nil object" error?
I think because @user is not getting setup.
Colin
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