Rails - Oct 2005 - "cannot convert Symbol into String" after renaming model

Hi everyone,

I chose to rename my existing ''user'' model to
''person'' when adding the
ModelSecurity code to my app.  I went through and changed all of the
following references:

user => person
User => Person
users => people
Users => People

I think I''ve got everything translated.  But now I get "cannot
convert
Symbol into String" when I run the following code:

<%= text_field_with_auto_complete :person, :username, { :size => 30 },
:skip_style => true -%><br />

The only thing different is ":person" was ":user".

I renamed _user.rhtml to _person.rhtml.  The db table is now "people"
instead of "users".  I''m just not sure why I''m
getting that error.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Sean

No ideas?  Ouch.  Perhaps I''ll try the Ruby list.

I''ve found a few other references to user which should have been
person, but nothing seems to affect this issue.

On 10/17/05, Sean Hussey
<seanhussey-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I chose to rename my existing ''user'' model to
''person'' when adding the
> ModelSecurity code to my app.  I went through and changed all of the
> following references:
>
> user => person
> User => Person
> users => people
> Users => People
>
> I think I''ve got everything translated.  But now I get
"cannot convert
> Symbol into String" when I run the following code:
>
> <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :person, :username, { :size => 30
},
> :skip_style => true -%><br />
>
> The only thing different is ":person" was ":user".
>
> I renamed _user.rhtml to _person.rhtml.  The db table is now
"people"
> instead of "users".  I''m just not sure why I''m
getting that error.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sean
>

Have you tried changing your :person and :username to strings?

As in:

<%= text_field_with_auto_complete ''person'',
''username'', { :size => 30 },
:skip_style => true -%>

Tom

On 10/18/05, Sean Hussey
<seanhussey-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> No ideas?  Ouch.  Perhaps I''ll try the Ruby list.
>
> I''ve found a few other references to user which should have been
> person, but nothing seems to affect this issue.
>
> On 10/17/05, Sean Hussey
<seanhussey-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I chose to rename my existing ''user'' model to
''person'' when adding the
> > ModelSecurity code to my app.  I went through and changed all of the
> > following references:
> >
> > user => person
> > User => Person
> > users => people
> > Users => People
> >
> > I think I''ve got everything translated.  But now I get
"cannot convert
> > Symbol into String" when I run the following code:
> >
> > <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :person, :username, { :size =>
30 },
> > :skip_style => true -%><br />
> >
> > The only thing different is ":person" was ":user".
> >
> > I renamed _user.rhtml to _person.rhtml.  The db table is now
"people"
> > instead of "users".  I''m just not sure why
I''m getting that error.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Sean
> >
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Tried that.  No go:

undefined method `readable?'' for nil:NilClass

Maybe there''s something different about the Locomotive bundles that I
did or didn''t have in my pervious local installation.

I think I''ve narrowed it down to my environment, but I can''t
run
script/server to see.  I get this:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/lib/active_support/clean_logger.rb:13:in
`remove_const'': constant Logger::Format not defined (NameError)
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/lib/active_support/clean_logger.rb:13
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
`require''
        from
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/lib/active_support.rb:31
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require''
        from ./script/../config/environment.rb:50
        from ./script/server:42

I''ll have to try to find another way to get this working, though. 
Thanks for the help!

Sean

On 10/18/05, Tom Davies
<atomgiant-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Have you tried changing your :person and :username to strings?
>
> As in:
>
> <%= text_field_with_auto_complete ''person'',
''username'', { :size => 30 },
> :skip_style => true -%>
>
> Tom