Object is all nil in Rails 4+?

Question

I have a 'landing.html.erb' under a folder 'Welcome' in my Views. In the WelcomeController, I have the following:

def landing
@quiz = Quiz.new
end

to create a new Quiz. When the User clicks the create button,

def create
@quiz = current_user.quiz.build(quiz_params)
if @quiz.save
  flash[:success] = "Updated"
  redirect_to @quiz
else
  render 'new'
 end
end

def quiz_params
 params.require(:quiz).permit(:q1)
end

is the code I have for the QuizzesController. However, this gives the error:

undefined method `build' for nil:NilClass

specifically at the line

@quiz = current_user.quiz.build(quiz_params)

I ran the rails console and typed Quiz.new and it displayed every field as 'nil' and I'm not entirely sure what I need to modify and would appreciate guidance.

The Quiz model belongs_to User. The User has_one Quiz.

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Here I am assuming you are having has_one association among user and quiz. So for build the associated object you need to use the following code.

current_user.build_quiz(quiz_params)

This will build the quiz object with the user_id field contains the id of the current user and other fields according to quiz_params.