NoMethodError: undefined method 'password' while creating a user

Question

This is my User_Controller, normal scaffold

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  # GET /users
  # GET /users.json
  def index
    @users = User.all

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # index.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @users }
    end
  end

  # GET /users/1
  # GET /users/1.json
  def show
    @user = User.find(params[:id])

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # show.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @user }
    end
  end

  # GET /users/new
  # GET /users/new.json
  def new
    @user = User.new
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # new.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @user }
    end
  end

  # GET /users/1/edit
  def edit
    @user = User.find(params[:id])
  end

  # POST /users
  # POST /users.json
  def create
    @user = User.new(params[:user])
    respond_to do |format|
      if @user.save
        format.html { redirect_to @user, notice: 'User was successfully created.' }
        format.json { render json: @user, status: :created, location: @user }
      else
        format.html { render action: "new" }
        format.json { render json: @user.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end

  # PUT /users/1
  # PUT /users/1.json
  def update
    @user = User.find(params[:id])

    respond_to do |format|
      if @user.update_attributes(params[:user])
        format.html { redirect_to @user, notice: 'User was successfully updated.' }
        format.json { head :ok }
      else
        format.html { render action: "edit" }
        format.json { render json: @user.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
      end
    end
  end

  # DELETE /users/1
  # DELETE /users/1.json
  def destroy
    @user = User.find(params[:id])
    @user.destroy

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { redirect_to users_url }
      format.json { head :ok }
    end
  end
end

Here is the User model(User.rb) that im working on:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_and_belongs_to_many :roles
  attr_accessible :username, :email, :fname, :lname, :password, :password_confirmation
  validates :password, :presence => true,
                   :confirmation => true,
                   :length => {:within => 6..30}
end

While I created this model, I forgot that user should have a "password" attribute. So I made a migration for password. But ever since then I keep getting this error whenever I create a user:

NoMethodError: undefined method `password' for #<User:0x00000100b11560>

sorry for the poor formatting

Answer 1

Make sure that you have the password column in users table, login to mysql and do DESC users

Either you might have missed to run migration or your migration should have some problem