rails generate scaffold status name:string content:text

Question

When I open the status document in my text editor, it seems to work but 
"attr_accessible: :content, :name is missing, it only shows two lines. 
class Status < ActiveRecord::Base
end
The file inside of the migrate directory looks fine. 
class CreateStatuses < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :statuses do |t|
      t.string :name
      t.text :content
  t.timestamps
end
  end
end
Do I need to do something different? 
This is what my terminal showed: 
rails generate scaffold status name:string content:text
      invoke  activerecord
      create    db/migrate/20140513231423createstatuses.rb
      create    app/models/status.rb
      invoke    testunit
      create      test/models/statustest.rb
      create      test/fixtures/statuses.yml
      invoke  resourceroute
       route    resources :statuses
      invoke  scaffoldcontroller
      create    app/controllers/statusescontroller.rb
      invoke    erb
      create      app/views/statuses
      create      app/views/statuses/index.html.erb
      create      app/views/statuses/edit.html.erb
      create      app/views/statuses/show.html.erb
      create      app/views/statuses/new.html.erb
      create      app/views/statuses/form.html.erb
      invoke    testunit
      create      test/controllers/statusescontrollertest.rb
      invoke    helper
      create      app/helpers/statuseshelper.rb
      invoke      testunit
      create        test/helpers/statuseshelpertest.rb
      invoke    jbuilder
      create      app/views/statuses/index.json.jbuilder
      create      app/views/statuses/show.json.jbuilder
      invoke  assets
      invoke    coffee
      create      app/assets/javascripts/statuses.js.coffee
      invoke    scss
      create      app/assets/stylesheets/statuses.css.scss
      invoke  scss
      create    app/assets/stylesheets/scaffolds.css.scss

Stone Preston · Answer

you are most likely using rails 4 (you can check by typing rails -v in terminal). 
rails 4 uses something called strong parameters that is enforced at the controller level, not the model level like attr_accessible. So thats why that line is missing. It probably wont affect anything right now so at this point the app probably functions fine.
However, If I were you, I would uninstall rails 4 and install rails 3.2 which I think is what is being used in the treebook videos (could be wrong but its definitely not rails 4 though) and start over using the older version. If you dont, you are going to run into some issues which can be resolved, but might take some time for you to fix due to this version difference (lots of googling errors, looking up stuff on the forum here etc). 
$ gem uninstall rails
$ gem uninstall railties
$ gem install rails -v 3.2.0
Like I said you can definitely do it using rails 4, but the videos walk you through using the older rails version, not rails 4, so if you encounter problems, you are going to be on your own.

laurie gloge · Answer

Done thanks will give it a try.

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