Question

I am making a social network on the course that treehouse.com provide. It uses ruby on rails.

I am stuck at the minute because when I click post status I get this message. I’m trying to replace just any name with the user id. I have added all the correct things treehouse tell you to do but I get this error:

NoMethodError in Statuses#show

Showing /Users/lewisfrost/frostbook/app/views/statuses/show.html.erb where line #5 raised:

undefined method `first_name’ for 13:Fixnum

Extracted source (around line #5):

5: <%= @status.user_id.first_name %>

Can someone help?

Thanks

Answer 1

@status.user_id is just a number. User @status.user instead.

<%= @status.user.first_name if @status.user %>