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[vvan]

Hi,

just finished Simply Rails 2, and can't get the counter_cache to work.
Searched the forum but could not find anything.

any newly created story is supposed to have :votes_count = 1 but i keep getting nil when i check in console and story doesn't come up on "Upcoming stories page". the code is identical with the book (or code archive)

Any suggestions and help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Mittineague]

Hi vvan, welcome to the forums.
Chapter 9 has quite a bit to it. For example, the Vote model is changed to

class Vote < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :story, :counter_cache => true
end

What page was the last one where everything was OK? All the unit and functional tests for chapter 8 passed? What page did you first notice a problem?

[vvan]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply but the problem was in the migration file to add the counter cache.

There is a screencast at railscast for this, episode 23, it requires another line of code Story.reset_column_information just before Story.findall).each block.

This fixed it all.

Thanks again.