Simply Rails 2 Chp 8 Creating User? p 258

[sammyman]

I am on chapter 8 of Simply Rails 2 and I am working on creating a user. As far as I can tell, this book does not help setup a "registration page". Instead you are directed to create a user on page 258. Is there anyway to setup a simple registration page so other people can register?

[sammyman]

Also, when I try to create a user following p 258, I get the following errors:

>> u = User.new
NameError: uninitialized constant User
	from (irb):1

[Mittineague]

Hi sammyman, welcome to the forums,

The next chapter deals with the login process in depth. But as for a registration form, from pg. 349

.....
Of course, there are countless enhancements that we could make to our little application; some of the functionality that comes to mind includes:

■ creating a form that allows new users to register
■ sending an email to new users to inform them of their passwords
■ encrypting user passwords in the database
■ allowing users to comment on stories
■ restricting users to vote for each story only once

I’m sure your mind is racing with ideas for a number of spectacular features that could set your application apart from the pack! While the addition of all of these features is more than we could possibly cover in this book, I’ve given you a solid grounding—both in theory and in practice—that you can build on to further develop Shovell on your own.
.....

so no, the book does not cover a registration form.

Re NameError, did 255 run OK without errors?

...> ruby script/generate model User login:string password:string name:string email:string

And you did the file modifications correctly and the migration went OK?

[sammyman]

Hi sammyman, welcome to the forums,

The next chapter deals with the login process in depth. But as for a registration form, from pg. 349

so no, the book does not cover a registration form.

Re NameError, did 255 run OK without errors?

And you did the file modifications correctly and the migration went OK?

Thanks for the reply. 255 did run fine without errors.

I think I may be having a problem with my mysql3 installation. I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard about a month ago which I believe could be the culprit.

[sammyman]

Hi sammyman, welcome to the forums,

The next chapter deals with the login process in depth. But as for a registration form, from pg. 349

so no, the book does not cover a registration form.

Re NameError, did 255 run OK without errors?

And you did the file modifications correctly and the migration went OK?

I did do 255 without errors. Today, I tried to retrace my steps and I deleted apps/models/user.rb and 003_create_users.rb, and recreated model User. Then I tried to migrate with the following error:

rake aborted!
An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:

SQLite3::SQLException: table "users" already exists: CREATE TABLE "users" ("id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, "login" varchar(255), "password" varchar(255), "name" varchar(255), "email" varchar(255), "created_at" datetime, "updated_at" datetime)

I still have no way to create a user which is hard because I want to test out the application.