On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 23 May 2011 11:50, john shelfer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>        I created migration  and added  following code inside and then
> did
> >> "rake db:migrate" but still the same error persists.I think now it might
> >> work,but it did not.
>
> Have you worked right through railstutorial.org already?
>   No.I followed yet it from Agile web development with Rails (Pdf).Does
> everything seems right with coding part?
>

    John

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