Following and unfollowing events - ruby-on-rails

Question

I've done Michael Hartl Ruby on Rails 5 tutorial and am now trying to apply the code to my own app.
What I'm trying to do is:
Follow/Unfollow an event
Display total count of users following this event
Users can see all the events that they are following
The current error appears when I try to render the conferences that current user is following.
The error that I get is:
ActionController::UrlGenerationError in Users#show
No route matches {:action=>"followers", :controller=>"conferences", :id=>nil} missing required keys: [:id]
The line that causes the problem is:
<a href="<%= followers_conference_path(#conference) %>">
Now obviously their is something wrong in my routing and I assume the following problem states that conferences is missing a required id?
Does anyone know the solution to my problem? Which is getting allowing users to follow events and see what events they are following
USER CONTROLLER SHOW
def show
#user = User.find(params[:id])
#microposts = #user.microposts.paginate(page: params[:page])
#managments = #user.managments.paginate(page: params[:page])
#conference = Conference.find(params[:id])
end
ROUTES.RB
Rails.application.routes.draw do
root 'static_pages#home'
get '/help', to: 'static_pages#help'
get '/about', to: 'static_pages#about'
get '/contact', to: 'static_pages#contact'
get '/my_conference', to: 'my_conference#show'
get '/conferences', to: 'conferences#index'
get '/conferences_list', to: 'conferences#index_admin'
get '/my_employees', to: 'employees#index'
get '/signup', to: 'users#new'
get '/login', to: 'sessions#new'
post '/login', to: 'sessions#create'
delete '/logout', to: 'sessions#destroy'
get '/login', to: 'sessions#new'
put 'activate/:id(.:format)', :to => 'users#activate', :as => :activate_user
put 'deactivate/:id(.:format)', :to => 'users#deactivate', :as => :deactivate_user
put 'activate_employee/:id(.:format)', :to => 'employees#activate', :as => :activate_employee
put 'deactivate_employee/:id(.:format)', :to => 'employees#deactivate', :as => :deactivate_employee
resources :users do
member do
get :following
end
end
resources :conferences do
member do
get :followers
end
end
resources :articles
resources :users
resources :employees
resources :account_activations, only: [:edit]
resources :activations, only: [:edit]
resources :password_resets, only: [:new, :create, :edit, :update]
resources :microposts, only: [:create, :destroy]
resources :managments
resources :conferences
resources :relationships, only: [:create, :destroy]
end
CONFERENCES_CONTROLLER.RB
class ConferencesController < ApplicationController
before_action :logged_in_user, only: [:create, :destroy]
before_action :correct_user, only: :destroy
before_action :admin_user, only: :destroy
def index
#conferences = Conference.paginate(page: params[:page])
if params[:search]
#conferences = Conference.search(params[:search]).order("created_at DESC").paginate(page: params[:page])
else
#conferences = Conference.all.order('created_at DESC').paginate(page: params[:page])
end
end
def new
#user = User.new
#conference = Conference.new
end
def create
#conference = current_user.conferences.build(conference_params)
if #conference.save
flash[:success] = "conference created!"
redirect_to conferences_path
else
#feed_items = current_user.feed.paginate(page: params[:page])
render 'new'
end
end
def destroy
#conference.destroy
flash[:success] = "conference deleted"
redirect_to request.referrer || root_url
end
def following
#title = "Following"
#conference = Conference.find(params[:id])
#conferences = #conference.following.paginate(page: params[:page])
render 'show_follow'
end
def followers
#title = "Followers"
#user = User.find(params[:id])
#users = #user.followers.paginate(page: params[:page])
render 'show_follow'
end
private
def conference_params
params.require(:conference).permit(:conference,:country , :month, :presence, :audience, :cost ,:picture)
end
# Confirms an admin user.
def admin_user
redirect_to(root_url) unless current_user.admin?
end
def correct_user
#conference = current_user.conferences.find_by(id: params[:id])
redirect_to root_url if #conference.nil?
end
end

Answer 1

Ahh, i see the issue.
Check your UsersController#show to see if #conference is being set anywhere.
If not try: <a href="<%= followers_conference_path(current_user.id) %>">

Answer 2

You don't want to use the user id to get the #conference object, I'm sure. Instead, you are probably generating a list of conferences the user is following. In that case, you'd use something like this
<% #user.conferences.each do |conference| %>
<%= conference.name %>
<% end %>
And, in Rails, you would usually use the link_to helper, and maybe include a count to show how many followers the conference has.
<% #user.conferences.each do |conference| %>
<%= link_to conference.name, followers_conference_path(conference) %>
(<%= pluralize conference.users.count, 'follower' %>)
<% end %>