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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Getting Started with Rails Generate a Rails Application

Posted by firnaz luztian adiansyah
firnaz luztian adiansyah
5,295 Points

undefined method `attr_accessible' for #<Class:0x77e25d0>

help! I did exactly the same I followed the steps in the video, i did migrate the db but I keep getting this error when I go to localhost:3000/statuses

NoMethodError in StatusesController#index

undefined method `attr_accessible' for #<Class:0x77e25d0>

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

This course uses Rails 3.2. If you're using Rails 4 and above, the code shown in the videos will not work (it's outdated). attr_accessible is one of the differences. Rails 4 uses Strong Parameters instead for this purpose.

firnaz luztian adiansyah
firnaz luztian adiansyah
5,295 Points

Sorry I am new to rails does that mean we can fix this with replacing attr_accesible with strong parameter? how? I was about to downgrade to 3.2.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

It's better to downgrade to 3.2 and use old gems like Jason does. Trying to translate this app into Rails 4 is not so easy if you're new to Rails.

Nelly Nelly
Nelly Nelly
7,134 Points
Nelly Nelly
Nelly Nelly
7,134 Points

I just face into this problem maybe this could help !

Using Rails 4 the solution is to create a controller for user_friendships ( in the next video Jason create that controller, so you will need it anyway)

rails g controller UserFriendships`

And set the strong parameters :

class UserFriendshipsController < ApplicationController


  private
  def params_user_friendship
    params.require(:friendship).permit(:user, :friend, :user_id, :friend_id)
  end

end