Week 2: Rails Models

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I keep getting the mass assignment error. Deck.new and deck.name = “Japanese” worked just fine, but I keep getting errors with adding “Russian”.

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Are you using Rails 4? Is the error on on the word “Russian” or others too? Did you add a strong params method?

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It’s other too. Yes, rails 4.

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It’s actually 4.2

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If you’re getting an ActiveModel::ForbiddenAttributesError when trying to create a new deck, you’re probably using Rails 4 which introduced strong parameters.

You can implement the create method as follows:

class DecksController < ApplicationController

  ...

  def create
    @deck = Deck.new(deck_params)
    @deck.save
    redirect_to "/decks"
  end


  private

  def deck_params
    params.require(:deck).permit(:name)
  end
end

Similarly, the syntax for the confirmation alert on the Delete button is slightly different in Rails 4. I had to write it as follows to get it to work:

<%= link_to 'Delete', "/decks/#{deck.id}", method: :delete, data: {confirm: 'Are you sure?'} %>

Hope this helps!

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EDIT: found my problem. I needed to include the line “gem ‘coffee-script-source’, ‘1.8.0’” in my gemfile. This is apparently an issue with running Rails on a Windows machine. I found this solution at this Stack Overflow thread.

I’m having trouble with the delete function. I’m doing this class half on my home Windows machine, and half on a linux laptop, both running RubyMine and Rails 3.2.21. My windows machine refuses to show the Confirmation popup or allow a DELETE call via link_to (but my Linux machine works as shown in the video). If I change link_to to button_to, I can get the DELETE call to go through, but I still don’t get a confirmation box. The HTML appears to be generating correctly, but when I look at the information in the server command prompt, it shows nothing about the confirmation box.

My popup blocker excludes localhost. I haven’t been able to find anything through the great sage Google. I don’t get any errors, it just doesn’t work. I appreciate any guidance I can get.