"URL" model not possible?

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Hello there,

I just added an URL model to my app (allowing users to basically add urls etc), which works perfectly fine on the console, but the views are not working properly. I always get the following error (e.g. when wanting to create/add a new url):

ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `rewrite' for #<Url: 0x25a6070>) on line #5 of urls/new.html.erb: 2: 3: <%= error_messages_for :url %> 4: 5: <% form_for([@user, @url], :url => { :action => "create" }) do |f| %> 6: 7: <p><label for=":url">Url</label><br/> 8: <%= f.text_field :url %></p>

:-/

Is an URL model not possible at all or am I missing something?

-J

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I think Url will already be an object, so you've overridden an existing object, meaning it doesn't have the same structure any more, hence the ActionView error. There are a few gotchas like that when naming your controllers and models. Try a different name.

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Thanks :slight_smile: Yeah - I did. Might be nice to have an overview/cheatsheet somewhere which names are sort of reserved or not usable by rails (e.g. ran into the trouble naming another one 'Set' - which doesn't work either).

But oh well... thanks for the answer, -J :slight_smile:

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Such a list of reserved words is available here: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ReservedWords

Regards, Nicolai