On 23 May 2011 11:20, john shelfer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 23 May 2011 02:59, John shelfer <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On May 22, 12:57 pm, Jatin kumar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You are confusing things a lot. >> >> Answer this question first: >> >> Did you scaffold the model or you are adding the files one by one >> >> writing >> >> the code by hand. >> > I didnt scaffold.I am adding files one by one. >> > >> >> 1. If you did scaffold, I don't see a problem coming anywhere. >> >> 2. If you didn't scaffold, then go for Colin's suggestion and read the >> >> guides, you will understand how Rails works. >> >> AND read the guides rightnow, before you get troubled by another >> >> problem. >> >> >> >> As of the current problem that you are facing, do this: >> >> 1. Look up the database table for posts, and see if you have a column >> >> named >> >> 'name' in there. If not, what went wrong. >> > In 'posts' table there is no column for name,title and content. >> >> I suggested before reading the Rails Guide on Routing. I also suggest >> that you read the Getting Started guide and then the others. Also >> work through a good tutorial (make sure it is for the version of Rails >> that you are using). railstutorial.org is a good free to use online >> tutorial. > > Thank you very much.I will read it now. >> >> The reason is that you are missing some fundamental >> understanding of how Rails works. When you do form_for(@post) and >> then f.text_field :name rails expects @post to have a method 'name' to >> get the initial value for display. Often this will come automatically >> from the fact that the posts table will contain a column 'name'. >> Since you have no such column it complains that Post has no method > > Because i am not doing scaffold,so can i add column values > manually to table 'posts' OR changes should be made in > Model.
You can add them using migrations. railstutorial.org will show you how to do that. Colin -- 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.
