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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Creating an Authentication System Generating the Devise Views

Posted by Daniel Sullivan
Daniel Sullivan
8,166 Points

Simple Rails App - Devise Issue

I am receiving this error ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in Devise::RegistrationsController#new. I know the video is out of date with a few things, but not sure if this is the cause. Any help would be appreciated. When I run rake db:migrate:status it only shows one migration even though I created a migration for Devise User.

4 Answers

Daniel Sullivan
Daniel Sullivan
8,166 Points

I figured it out by opening up the provided files and comparing them to mine. For some reason there was no users table in the schema.rb file so I copied it over and rake db:migrate. Also my devise_create_users migration did not end it .rb, not sure why but I added that. The combination of these two seemed to get it working, not exactly sure how or why this happened but it's good now.

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

have you tried running just 

$ rake d:migrate

it sounds like your registrations controller might not have a "new" action. can you check your controller and make sure you have that action defined?

Daniel Sullivan
Daniel Sullivan
8,166 Points
Daniel Sullivan
Daniel Sullivan
8,166 Points

Hi Stone,

Thanks for responding. I have tried rake db:migrate, also tried dropping and recreating. As far as a registrations controller, I have been following the videos I installed Devise and generated a User model. At this point I only have a statuses_controller. When I installed Devise was it supposed to generate a controller at some point? Maybe that is the problem? I am pretty new to rails, so if my logic doesn't make sense forgive me. Thanks for the help.

David Curtis
David Curtis
11,301 Points
David Curtis
David Curtis
11,301 Points

Not sure if this is the same issue I had with devise, but here is a lengthy post on issues with devise: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/devise-updated-with-ruby-211-and-rails-403

When devise started getting buggy with me, I started the course over w/ 1.9.3 (instead of 2.0 and 4.0 rails). Hopefully, you won't have to do that.

Good luck -

David