ruby on rails - undefined method valid? - ruby-on-rails

Question

im following ryan bates screen cast on how http://railscasts.com/episodes/219-active-model on how to validate a form without a database
but i keep getting an undefined method valid?
heres my controller
def create
#contacts = FreshDeskApiWrapper.new().post_tickets(params[:contacts])
if #contacts.valid?
redirect_to new_contact_path
else
flash[:notice] = "OOps"
render action: 'new'
end
end
I can seem to call
$ FreshDeskApiWrapper.new().valid?
just fine in the console but it does not seem to like it when i tack on the
$ FreshDeskApiWrapper.new().post_tickets(params[email: 'user#example.com']).valid?
i get an undefined method valid?
There is something im not understanding about this
heres my fresh_desk_api_wrapper.rb file i created in my models folder
class FreshDeskApiWrapper
include ActiveModel::Validations
include ActiveModel::Conversion
extend ActiveModel::Naming
attr_accessor :config, :client, :subject, :email, :custom_field_phone_number_50754, :custom_field_company_50754, :description
validates :subject, presence: true
validates :email, presence: true
validates_format_of :email, :with => /^[-a-z0-9_+\.]+\#([-a-z0-9]+\.)+[a-z0-9]{2,4}$/i
def initialize(attributes = {})
attributes.each do |name, value|
send("#{name}=", value)
end
self.config = YAML.load_file("#{Rails.root}/config/fresh_desk.yml")[Rails.env]
self.client = Freshdesk.new(config[:url], config[:api_key], config[:password])
end
def post_tickets(params)
client.post_tickets(params)
end
def persisted?
false
end
end
post_tickets is something im defining in there

Answer 1

You can call valid? on an single instance of an object, not multiple. #contacts would imply that your post_tickets method is returning multiple objects.

Answer 2

try something like this:
#contacts = FreshDeskApiWrapper.new(post_tickets(params[:contacts])
what seems to be the problem is that the method you are adding dosnt return a active record object, so the method valid? is not available
Edit:
maybe this:
#contacts = FreshDeskApiWrapper.new(FreshDeskApiWrapper.post_tickets(params[:contacts])

Answer 3

omg im so dumb so what i did was
def create
#contacts = FreshDeskApiWrapper.new(params[:contacts])
#contacts.post_tickets(params[:contacts])
if #contacts.valid?
redirect_to new_contact_path
else
flash[:notice] = "OOps"
render action: 'new'
end
end
and it works!
Im still struggling to learn all this.....thanks for your guy's guidance it really helped