NoMethodError

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Why, when I am trying to manually assign permalinks, would I get this from the ruby console:

s.update_attribute :permalink, 'my-shiny-weblog' NoMethodError: undefined method `permalink=' for #<Story:0x32361c8>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.2/lib/ active_record/base.rb:1858:in `method_missing'         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.2/lib/ active_record/validations.rb:772:in `send'         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.2/lib/ active_record/validations.rb:772:in `update_attribute'         from (irb):54

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Why, when I am trying to manually assign permalinks, would I get this from the ruby console:

If you don't have a permalink field in your db, yes.

Pat

p.s. Actually you get that any time you don't have a permalink= method (just like it says). Rails just happens to create that method for you based on your attributes

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That means that your @story variable is nil. Did you set it in your controller? Something like:

@story = Story.find params[:id]

Pat