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Tikifiki
Tikifiki

Reputation: 1

unknown attribute 'name' for page

Hello I am super new to coding & ruby on rails. I am using the Lynda.com "Ruby on rails 3 essential training" I am on section 8 on video called "One-to-many associations" for those who what tutorial I am referencing.

I keep running into this error 

"ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError: unknown attribute 'name' for Page"

The command I am running is
first_page = Page.new(:name "First Page", :permalink => "first", :position => 1)

When I run the command without

":name => 'First Page'" as first_page = Page.new(:permalink => "first", :position => 1)

the error goes away.

So that is my confusion is, why giving the object a name causing this error.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 545

Answers (1)

vich
vich

Reputation: 11896

You misplaced the : in setting the name key-value pair:

Instead of:

first_page = Page.new(:name "First Page", :permalink => "first", :position => 1)

Try this (assuming your Ruby version is >= 1.9):

first_page = Page.new(name: "First Page", permalink: "first", position: 1)

Upvotes: 1

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