I am writing my first rails script and am having lots of trouble doing
the simplest tasks.
Right now, I have a form (new.rhtml) and it allows someone to become a
new user by entering their info (username, password, name, etc).
the form calls the 'create' routine which is supposed to save it to
the DB. However, the data is not being saved. How can I debug this? I
am a perl scripter and with Perl I know how to find out where the bugs
are, but because I'm new to ruby/rails, I can't figure this out.
Here is the form:
<form action="/user/create" method="post">
<table width=400>
<tr bgcolor="#999999"><td colspan=2>Please choose a username and
password to create your account</tr>
<tr><td>User Name*:</td><td><input id="username" name="user[username]"
maxlength=12 type=text></tr>
<tr><td>Password*:</td><td><input id="password" name="user[password]"
maxlength=12 type=password></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#999999"><td colspan=2>Account Information</td></tr>
<tr><td>Company Name*:</td><td><input id="company_name"
name="user[company_name]" maxlength=25 type=text></td></tr>
<tr><td>First Name*:</td><td><input id="first_name"
name="user[first_name]" maxlength=25 type=text></td></tr>
<tr><td>Last Name*:</td><td><input id="last_name"
name="user[last_name]" maxlength=25 type=text></td></tr>
<tr><td>Email Address*:</td><td><input id="email" name="user[email]"
maxlength=35 type=text></td></tr>
<tr><td>Address 1*:</td><td><input id="address1" name="user[address1]"
maxlength=40 type=text></td></tr>
<tr><td>Address 2:</td><td><input id="address2" name="user[address2]"
maxlength=40 type=text></td></tr>
<tr><td>City*:</td><td><input id="city" name="user[city]" maxlength=35
type=text></td></tr>
<tr><td>Zip Code*:</td><td><input id="zip" name="user[zip]"
maxlength=12 type=text></td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone*:</td><td><input id="phone" name="user[phone]"
maxlength=15 type=text></td></tr>
<tr><td>Mobile*:</td><td><input id="mobile" name="user[mobile]"
maxlength=15 type=text></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=2><input type="submit" value= "Save and
Continue"></td></tr>
</form>
</table>
Here is my user controller with the create routine:
class UserController < ApplicationController
ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods
scaffold :user
def new
@user = User.new
@mystates = State.find_all
end
def create
@newuser = User.new(@params['user'])
@newuser.creation_date = Date.today
@newuser.last_login = Date.today
@newuser.save
end
end
Here is my user table definition:
create table users
(
id int auto_increment not null unique,
username varchar(15) not null,
password varchar (16) not null,
company_name varchar(25) not null,
first_name varchar(25) not null,
last_name varchar(25) not null,
email varchar(35) not null,
address1 varchar(40) not null,
address2 varchar(40) ,
city varchar(35) not null,
state tinyint ,
zip varchar(12) not null,
phone varchar(15) not null,
mobile varchar(15) ,
creation_date date,
last_login datetime,
primary key (id), index(id, state)
);
Just a note that the state was giving me problems (error said that I
was trying to put in a string when it needed an int) so I removed it
from the form.
Any idea why this isn't working? What can I insert in my 'create'
method so that I can see what the problem is? I need to learn how to
debug these things myself so that I don't have to bother user groups
like this one. Just a note that I can see the 'contents' of the @params
array. It's not helping my debugging though.
Thank you in advance.