Question

I’m learning RoR and working on a simple app to share posts. My trouble is creating the posts and displaying them on a separate page(not sure where my error is). When a “user” goes to post an “event” I get an undefined method:

undefined method `model_name’ for NilClass:Class
12: <%= render @events %>

I thought I had defined the method properly, but I guess not.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Answer 1

I’m guessing that this is the controller in question:

  def create
    @event = current_user.events.build(params[:event])
    if @event.save
      flash[:success] = "Event Shared"
      redirect_to root_path
    #else
    #  render 'pages/about'
    end


    #@event = Event.new         what I had before
    #@title = "Create An Event"
  end

You set @event in there but not @events. Instance variables are created on first use and default to nil so in your view, when you say this:

<%= render @events %>

you’re creating @events right there and it will be nil. Perhaps you want:

<%= render @event %>