trying to view error messages in rails - ruby-on-rails

Question

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
before_save {self.email = email.downcase}
validates :name, presence: true, length: { maximum: 50 }
VALID_EMAIL_REGEX = /\A[\w+\-.]+#[a-z\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i
validates :email, presence: true, length: { maximum: 255 },
format: { with: VALID_EMAIL_REGEX },
uniqueness: { case_sensitive: false }
has_secure_password
validates :password, length: { maximum: 6}
end
I am really new to Ruby. I was learning from Michael Hartl's tutorial. When creating signup form (tutorial 7) I got stuck in displaying error messages ( like if we leave any field blank there should be notifications in red right?).I added error_messages.html.erb file. Rendered it in form. Still there are no messages.
What I guessed is, I am using :user in my form creation to save the user. where as it should be #user. So that it can create user?
but when I did so, It gave me anonymous error of user_path. I searched for that display of error messages on stack but was not able to find.
Kindly help me with it. I am stuck since very long.
<% provide(:title, 'Sign up') %>
<h1>Sign up</h1>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-3">
<%= form_for(:person) do |f| %>
<%= render 'shared/error_messages' %>
<%= f.label :name %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
<%= f.label :email %>
<%= f.email_field :email %>
<%= f.label :password %>
<%= f.password_field :password %>
<%= f.label :password_confirmation, "Confirmation" %>
<%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>
<%= f.submit "Create my account", class: "btn btn-primary" %>
<% end %>
</div>
</div>
<% if #person.errors.any? %>
<div id="error_explanation">
<div class="alert alert-danger">
the form contains <%= #person.errors.count %> errors.
</div>
<ul>
<%= #person.errors.full_messages.each do |msg| %>
<li> <%= msg %> </li>
<% end %>
</ul>
</div>
<% end %>
class PersonsController < ApplicationController
def show
#person = Person.find(params[:id])
end
def new
#person = Person.new
end
def create
#person = Person.new(user_params)
if #person.save
else
render new
end
end
private
def user_params
params.require(:person).permit(:name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation)
end
end
Rails.application.routes.draw do
get 'persons/show'
root 'staticpages#home'
get 'help' => 'staticpages#help'
get 'about' => 'staticpages#about'
get 'signUp' => 'persons#new'
resource :person
resources :persons
end
// error when i use #user in form. Instead of :user
NoMethodError in PersonsController#new
undefined method `users_path' for #<#<Class:0x007fdb68c0ee78>:0x007fdb68c0e428>
Extracted source (around line #220):
if options.empty?
recipient.send(method, *args)
else
recipient.send(method, *args, options)
end

Answer 1

Based on the code I have seen in the GitHub repo, the major problem I identified was with the naming. There was a large level of conflict in the name person in that its plural is people and not persons.
Rails has its way of pluralizing model names so User has a UsersController and Person has PeopleController and so forth.
Following are the changes required to fix the problems with sign up:
You need to change your controller name from PersonsController to PeopleController (both class name and file name).
In the PeopleController, the strong parameters method Person_params needs to change to lowercase (person_params). Otherwise, Rails would treat it as a constant name and start hunting for it and wouldn't find it.
You'll have to update the persons folder name in the app/views folder to people for the same reason specified above.
In your routes.rb file, there are two changes required. Change resource :person to resources :people and get 'signUp' should match to 'people#new' instead of 'persons#new' (now you know why).
Create a new file in app/views/people called create.html.erb. Once a person is created, Rails automatically renders this file and will throw an exception if it does not find it.
In the file app/views/people/new.html.erb, change the variable passed to form_for from :person to #person. #person is an instance variable initialized when that page is visited (see the new action in the PeopleController).
I'm not sure if this change will be needed, but if you face any errors after making the above changes, add gem 'therubyracer' to your Gemfile and run bundle install. This will install the rubyracer gem which I believe will be required for this version of Rails.
You should really familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of the framework and the Ruby language. It'll help you identify and debug these issues yourself. But I figured since you're new to it, this lengthy answer might help get rid of your frustration :).

Answer 2

You have used the User model in multiple places. The actual model is called Person. Switch to this model name in all the controllers and the model class.
And I'd also like to make a suggestion. When studying the tutorial, please do not blindly copy and paste snippets. Understand what their purpose is and write them in your files on your own.