Simply Rails 2 - belongs_to Clause - page 204

I'm following Simply Rails 2 and I am stuck at page 204

I modified the vote.rb file as follows:

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class Vote < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :story
end

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then going over to the console I typed the following command:

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>> v= Vote.find( :first)

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and this was the reply from the console:

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=> #<Vote id: 1, story_id: 1, created_at: "2009-06-17 19:20:11", updated_at: "2009-06-17 19:20:11">

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So far so good. So proceeding to the next step I typed the following command in the console:

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>> v.story

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and this is the reply from the console:

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NoMethodError: undefined method 'story' for #<Vote:0x3245524>
from C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:205:in 'method_missing'
from (irb):9

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So using page 162 as a guide (because there was a NoMethodError in Stories#new), the book said the problem is:

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we haven't declared Story as a resource anywhere.

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Again, the book said that:

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resources in Rails are declared in the file responsible for the Routing Configuration, config/routes.rb

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My routes.rb looks like this:

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ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
map.resources :stories
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
end

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So, I tried to add the following line to the routes.db file:
map.resources : votes

And this didn't solve the problem.

So, what exactly is the solution to this problem?

I tried searching for a solution on Google, also on Google blog search. Is there a site that anyone would recommend for information on dealing with Ruby errors?

Dealing with errors is something I'd like to be better at too. So I'm looking forward to hearing from others.

I guess if you're only on page 204, then this from page 218 isn't the problem

Code Ruby:

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ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
 map.resources :stories, :has_many => :votes
......

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Back on page 204, it mentions needing to reload the console after making changes, did you try

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>> reload!
Reloading...
=> true

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It was the reload!

Thanks again for the help.