I have a problem at the moment and am not sure what I should do. It is
in regards to relationships between tables and whether I need foreign
keys.
I have two tables in my database; users and games. Users includes all
the users information (username, email, address, password etc.) Games
includes all the games information (name, genre, console user_id). As
you may have noticed the games table includes the users id in order to
associate the relationship between the two which is every game needs an
associated user.
What I wish to do is on each games show.html.erb page, I have a button
which should send an email to the owner of that game in order to let
them now that the currently signed in user is interested in trading that
game.
I am wondering how I would do this. Does the user_id automatically link
all the users associated data or just the id. If not then how would I
declare the users email as a foreign key in order for me to call the
users email to be sent to?
Assuming you have specified user has_many games and game belongs_to
user then if you have a game you can access the game's user by
game.user, so you can access the users email by game.user.email.
Have a look at the Rails Guide on ActiveRecord Associations (and the
other guides too). As it seems you need to learn about Rails basics I
suggest that you work right through a tutorial such as
railstutorial.org (which is free to use online). But wait, have I not
suggested this to you on at least one previous occasion? Have you
done that? Am I wasting my time I wonder?
I currently have the following in my games_controller for the show
section so that when a user clicks on the button it does the following
e.g. Jon(user 6) is interested in Adam(user 31) game. Jon clicks on
adams game show page and clicks the interested button. The email should
send to user 31's email address.
Now if I write game.user.email I get undefined method game but the
following states wrong number of arguments (1 of 0).
def show
@game = Game.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
GameTrade.game_interest(@game.user.email).deliver
format.html { redirect_to root_url }
format.json { render json: @game }
end
end
I currently have the following in my games_controller for the show
section so that when a user clicks on the button it does the following
e.g. Jon(user 6) is interested in Adam(user 31) game. Jon clicks on
adams game show page and clicks the interested button. The email should
send to user 31's email address.
Now if I write game.user.email I get undefined method game but the
following states wrong number of arguments (1 of 0).
Obviously in my example I was assuming that the variable game held a
game object.
def show
@game = Game.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
GameTrade.game_interest(@game.user.email).deliver
If it is not obvious which method it is complaining about then split
this into a number of lines, something like
user = @game.user
email = user.email
g = GameTrade.game_interest(email)
g.deliver
and then you will see which line it fails on, assuming it is this bit
at all, but I assume you have looked at the error to see which line is
causing the problem.
Also have a look at the Rails Guide on Debugging to see how to debug your code.
If it is not obvious which method it is complaining about then split
this into a number of lines, something like
user = @game.user
email = user.email
g = GameTrade.game_interest(email)
g.deliver
and then you will see which line it fails on, assuming it is this bit
at all, but I assume you have looked at the error to see which line is
causing the problem.
Also have a look at the Rails Guide on Debugging to see how to debug
your code.
Hey Colin I done as you said and the debugger states the following
error:
wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
and then states the following:
app/mailers/game_trade.rb:9:in `game_interest'
app/controllers/games_controller.rb:19:in `block in show'
app/controllers/games_controller.rb:16:in `show'
Now the first one shouldn't be a problem, it is just the mailer as I
have as followed which is fine:
def game_interest
@user = user
mail :to => user.email, :subject => "Game Interest"
end
But the second set of problems gives insight in to what the problem
would be. The problem is line 19 in the controller which is the
following line:
So you are calling game_interest with a parameter email. Read the
error. It says that you are passing 1 parameter when it expects 0.
Have a look at the spec of game_interest, how many parameters does it
take?
How are you getting on with railstutorial.org? If you worked right
through it, including the exercises and so on, then you would not have
to keep asking basic questions.
You do realize that the entire thing is free to READ, right? The podcasts add flavor and show someone else doing the exercise, but the entire course is available for you to read and do completely FOC.
But the second set of problems gives insight in to what the problem
would be. The problem is line 19 in the controller which is the
following line:
g = GameTrade.game_interest(email)
So you are calling game_interest with a parameter email. Read the
error. It says that you are passing 1 parameter when it expects 0.
Have a look at the spec of game_interest, how many parameters does it
take?
How are you getting on with railstutorial.org? If you worked right
through it, including the exercises and so on, then you would not have
to keep asking basic questions.
Colin
Hey Colin
What I have in my game_interest.rb is what I stated in an above post a
few posts back.
Please don't keep deleting the context. It was in my reply, you have
just deleted it. You have
def game_interest
@user = user
mail :to => user.email, :subject => "Game Interest"
end
How many parameters does that take? Please answer this question.
The code that is generating the error is
g = GameTrade.game_interest(email)
How many parameters are you passing. Please answer this question.
Is the answer to the first question the same as the answer to the second?
I have only worked through the free tutorials on railstutorial.org as I
can't afford the purchase of each episode Only managed to work through
tutorials 1 and 8 (as they were free).
The whole thing is free to use online. From
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ click on "is available for free online"
in the second paragraph.
Now go and spend a few days working through it.
But actually those are not even the same method. One is a class
method and one is an instance method. Have you defined both? Which
one are you trying to use? If you do not understand the difference
between class and instance methods in ruby then do a bit of googling
into the basics of Ruby.
What I have in my game_interest.rb is what I stated in an above post a
few posts back.
Please don't keep deleting the context. It was in my reply, you have
just deleted it. You have
def game_interest
@user = user
mail :to => user.email, :subject => "Game Interest"
end
How many parameters does that take? Please answer this question.
The code that is generating the error is
g = GameTrade.game_interest(email)
How many parameters are you passing. Please answer this question.
Is the answer to the first question the same as the answer to the
second?
I have only worked through the free tutorials on railstutorial.org as I
can't afford the purchase of each episode Only managed to work through
tutorials 1 and 8 (as they were free).
The whole thing is free to use online. From
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ click on "is available for free online"
in the second paragraph.
Now go and spend a few days working through it.
Colin
I see, that makes it a lot better, I will begin working through them
after my lunch. Should give further insight in to some sections. A lot I
have already covered through my book.
As an update I noticed I was not including anything after def
game_interest in the mailer so I added (user) to the end of it which
gives me a new error now which is the following:
undefined method `email' for "chris230391@googlemail.com":String
This shows it is at least getting to a stage as the user who I want to
send the email to is infact that email address.
