Rails association user & contacts throwing error - ruby-on-rails

Question

Amended the code base in 'contacts controller' from #contacts = Contact.all to #contacts = current_user.contact so a user can see only their contacts (currently any user sees all the contacts) This is throwing the below error. Tried tweaking but still no success and have checked the database in psql and both have id column. Any ideas or amendment needed in the code?
Failure/Error: <% if #contacts.any? %> ActionView::Template::Error: PG::UndefinedColumn: ERROR: column contacts.user_id does not exist LINE 1: SELECT 1 AS one FROM "contacts" WHERE "contacts"."user_id" ... ^ : SELECT 1 AS one FROM "contacts" WHERE "contacts"."user_id" = $1 LIMIT 1
Contacts Controller
class ContactsController < ApplicationController
before_action :contact, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy] before_action :authenticate_user!
def index
#contacts = current_user.contact end
def new
#contact = Contact.new end
def create
Contact.create(contact_params)
redirect_to '/contacts' end
def show end
def edit end
def update
#contact.update(contact_params)
redirect_to '/contacts/' + "#{#contact[:id]}" end
def destroy
#contact.destroy
redirect_to '/contacts' end
private
def contact_params
params.require(:contact).permit(:firstname, :surname, :email, :phone, :image) end
def contact
#contact = Contact.find(params[:id]) end
end
User controller
class UsersController < ApplicationController
end
Contact model
class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
has_attached_file :image, styles: {thumb: "100x100>"}
validates_attachment_content_type :image, content_type: /\Aimage\/.*\Z/
end
User model
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :contacts, dependent: :destroy
devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
:recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable
end
Index html
<%if user_signed_in? %>
<%= link_to 'Log out', destroy_user_session_path, method: :delete %>
<%end%>
<% if #contacts.any? %>
<% #contacts.each do |contact| %>
<%= link_to image_tag(contact.image.url(:thumb)), contact_path(contact) %>
<h3><%= contact.firstname%> <%=contact.surname%></h3>
<%=contact.email%><br />
<%=contact.phone%>
<br />
<br />
<%end%>
<%else%>
No contacts yet!
<%end%>
<br />
<br />
<%= link_to 'Add a contact', new_contact_path%>
Schema
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20160504125849) do
# These are extensions that must be enabled in order to support this database
enable_extension "plpgsql"
create_table "contacts", force: :cascade do |t|
t.string "firstname"
t.string "surname"
t.string "email"
t.integer "phone"
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
t.string "image_file_name"
t.string "image_content_type"
t.integer "image_file_size"
t.datetime "image_updated_at"
end
create_table "users", force: :cascade do |t|
t.string "email", default: "", null: false
t.string "encrypted_password", default: "", null: false
t.string "reset_password_token"
t.datetime "reset_password_sent_at"
t.datetime "remember_created_at"
t.integer "sign_in_count", default: 0, null: false
t.datetime "current_sign_in_at"
t.datetime "last_sign_in_at"
t.inet "current_sign_in_ip"
t.inet "last_sign_in_ip"
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
end
add_index "users", ["email"], name: "index_users_on_email", unique: true, using: :btree
add_index "users", ["reset_password_token"], name: "index_users_on_reset_password_token", unique: true, using: :btree
end

Answer 1

Basically you do not have the user_id in the contacts table. That is the foreign key which is used to define a relation to the users. Add the column and then when you create the contact, add the user's id to the user_id column in the contacts table. Then that should work.