I have a method in the Entry model called month_year (effectively stripping the month and year of the entry from the created_at date). Rails then creates a dynamic finder called “find_all_by_month_year” based on this method.

Robin

I had the same issue and I did what Johnny had suggested and in one of his suggestions he did have the ’show’ action duplicated. so, instead of this:

def show
@list = List.find(params[:id])
@task = @list.tasks.new
end

CHANGE TO:
def show
@list = List.find(params[:id])
end

THEN CHANGE:
form_for [@list, @task] do |form|

TO:
form_for [@list, @list.tasks.new] do |form|

Hope it helps

BTW, Robin, thanks for this great Tutorial

Nice job. But I do have one question. You did not define find_all_by_month_year’ in the application.

I don’t actually create the email address. For each event created, it would be given a downcased name e.g. robinsbirthday. Emails sent to robinsbirthday@mydomain.com would be routed into the application and then I strip out the part before the @ sign and find the relevant event e.g. Event.find_by_downcased_name

Robin

Many thanks for this very useful guide!

I had a question; you mentioned that for every user that signs up on your website, you automatically create an anonymous email like 12345@mydomain.com. How do do this?

If you could share code/guidelines for doing this, that would be awesome as I am relatively new to rails.

Thank you,

Faisal

I haven’t sent emails directly from one of my servers for a while.

My preferred method is to pass this off to an external service. I’m currently using Amazon Simple Email Service but I hear good things about Postmark.

….. No route matches {:controller=>”tasks”, :action=>”complete”, :list_id=>2, :id=>nil}

I have rails v 3.1.3 Johnny posted a fix which I attempted to implement but it does not seem to work for me – the error message remains exactly the same.

Could Johnny perhaps have made an error in his post? His fix for the ListController Show method doesn’t seem to change your code in any way.

QUOTE:

i changed my ListController show method from:

def show
@list = List.find(params[:id])
@task = @list.tasks.new
end

to :

def show
@list = List.find(params[:id])
@task = @list.tasks.new
end

Those two bits seem to be identical?

Please help – I was so enjoying the tutorial and would love to complete it before my holiday is over

Thanks a million!