Rails - New & edit not working with form_for - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm working through this Epicodus lesson and I just refactored my form partial for the new and edit views, but the new & edit actions are not working. When submitting the update, I'm getting the "name can't be blank" error.
Here's my new, create, edit & update actions in my contacts_controller:
def new
#contact = Contact.new
end
def create
#contact = Contact.new name: params[:name],
email: params[:email],
phone: params[:phone]
if #contact.save
flash[:notice] = "#{#contact.name} added."
redirect_to contacts_path
else
render 'new'
end
end
def edit
#contact = Contact.find(params[:id])
end
def update
#contact = Contact.find(params[:id])
if #contact.update name: params[:name],
email: params[:email],
phone: params[:phone]
flash[:notice] = 'Contact updated.'
redirect_to contact_path(#contact)
else
render 'edit'
end
end
My edit view:
<% content_for(:title, "Edit #{#contact.name} | Wikipages") %>
<h1>Edit <%= #contact.name %></h1>
<%= render 'errors'%>
<%= render 'form'%>
<p><%= link_to 'Return to contacts', '/contacts' %></p>
My new view:
<% content_for(:title, "New contact | Wikipages") %>
<h1>New contact</h1>
<%= render 'errors'%>
<%= render 'form'%>
<p><%= link_to 'Return to contacts', '/contacts', class: 'btn btn-default' %></p>
My form partial:
<%= form_for(#contact) do |f| %>
<div class="form-group">
<%= f.label :name %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<%= f.label :phone %>
<%= f.text_field :phone %>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<%= f.label :email %>
<%= f.text_field :email %>
</div>
<%= f.submit(class: "btn btn-primary")%>
<% end %>
And my routes:
Rails.application.routes.draw do
root 'contacts#index'
resources :contacts do
resources :phones
end
end
Here's the output from my log for the new:
Started POST "/contacts" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-09-23 07:00:34 -0400
Processing by ContactsController#create as HTML
Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"q59xzpBWXEs58qStmPcnpEqm89finUQKiUvYsjRYm8Q=", "contact"=>{"name"=>"Lance", "phone"=>"", "email"=>""}, "commit"=>"Create Contact"}
(2.1ms) BEGIN
(0.2ms) ROLLBACK
Rendered contacts/_errors.html.erb (0.6ms)
Rendered contacts/_form.html.erb (3.2ms)
Rendered contacts/new.html.erb within layouts/application (6.0ms)
Completed 200 OK in 214ms (Views: 207.5ms | ActiveRecord: 2.3ms)
Here's the output from my log for the edit:
Started PATCH "/contacts/12" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-09-23 06:48:02 -0400
Processing by ContactsController#update as HTML
Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"q59xzpBWXEs58qStmPcnpEqm89finUQKiUvYsjRYm8Q=", "contact"=>{"name"=>"Chuck Wight", "phone"=>"435345345e", "email"=>"desfwrf#er.com"}, "commit"=>"Update Contact", "id"=>"12"}
Contact Load (0.3ms) SELECT "contacts".* FROM "contacts" WHERE "contacts"."id" = $1 LIMIT 1 [["id", 12]]
(0.1ms) BEGIN
(0.4ms) ROLLBACK
Rendered contacts/_errors.html.erb (0.5ms)
Rendered contacts/_form.html.erb (4.4ms)
Rendered contacts/edit.html.erb within layouts/application (7.2ms)
Completed 200 OK in 208ms (Views: 201.0ms | ActiveRecord: 0.8ms)
Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Your params nested under contact and you are passing params to your create and update action directly. So try paarams[:contact][:email] instead of params[:email]
Like this :
def create
#contact = Contact.new name: params[:contact][:name],
email: params[:contact][:email],
phone: params[:contact][:phone]
if #contact.save
flash[:notice] = "#{#contact.name} added."
redirect_to contacts_path
else
render 'new'
end
end
def update
#contact = Contact.find(params[:id])
if #contact.update name: params[:contact][:name],
email: params[:contact][:email],
phone: params[:contact][:phone]
flash[:notice] = 'Contact updated.'
redirect_to contact_path(#contact)
else
render 'edit'
end
end
Clearly in your update action your are getting #contact as nil. So try make changes I suggested in your controller action. Hope this help you.