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Marc Burt
9,828 PointsUndefined method / nil error
I've just spend a few hours working through an error I had when attempting this video. There's a very good chance others will get stuck here too.
The error is caused because I'm using Rails 4.0.3 (didn't think to install an earlier version). I noticed by reading the console whilst using my site that I was getting multiple 'unpermitted variable' errors, when setting the status user ID and when entering first name, last name and profile name when signing up - I didn't realise these were not being saved since the user was still created.
I thought installing the protected_attributes gem would have solved the problems with Rails 4's Strong attributes but it turns out it didn't.
I eventually found this: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/strongparameters-and-treebook on the forum, Robert Goddards's post about the application_controller.rb file was what fixed it.
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Rodrigo Soares
2,460 PointsI did install the gem 'protected_attributes' like you mentioned above and it worked just fine for me.