In a partial file of my application I have the following code snippet for displaying user navigation(through Devise):-
<ul class="nav pull-right">
<% if user_signed_in? %>
<li>
<%= current_user.email do %>
<i class=" icon-user icon-black"></i>
<% end %>
</li>
<li>
<%= link_to "Your Links", profiles_index_path do %>
<i class=" icon-user icon-black"></i>
<% end %>
</li>
<li>
<%= link_to "Sign out", destroy_user_session_path, :method => 'delete' do %>
<i class=" icon-user icon-black"></i>
<% end %>
</li>
<% else %>
<li>
<%= link_to "Login", new_user_session_path do %>
<i class=" icon-lock"></i>
<% end %>
</li>
<li>
<%= link_to "Sign up", new_user_registration_path do %>
<i class=" icon-home"></i>
<% end %>
</li>
<% end %>
</ul>
But I'm getting an error saying:-
undefined method `stringify_keys' for "/users/sign_in":String
Now my questions are:-
- What is `stringify_keys' in general??
- How do I resolve this in my code???
Thanks...
1) stringify_keys
is a method that is called on a hash to convert its keys from symbols to strings. It's added by Rails - it's not a standard Ruby method. Here it is in the docs.
{:a => 1, :b => 2}.stringify_keys # => {"a" => 1, "b" => 2}
2) This means that your code is passing "/users/sign_in"
somewhere that is expecting a hash. Closer inspection reveals that you are mixing and matching two forms of link_to
:
# specify link contents as an argument
link_to "The text in the link", "/path/to/link", some: "options"
# specify link contents in a block
link_to "/path/to/link", some: "options" do
"The text in the link"
end
As you can see you are trying to do both:
<%= link_to "Sign out", destroy_user_session_path, :method => 'delete' do %>
<i class=" icon-user icon-black"></i>
<% end %>
and Rails expects the second argument in the block form to be the options hash, so it is calling stringify_keys
on it which is causing your error.
Change those links to look like this instead:
<%= link_to destroy_user_session_path, :method => 'delete' do %>
<i class=" icon-user icon-black"></i> Sign out
<% end %>
as per the documentat stringify_keys will try to convert all keys to a string. So in simple works the method expects something with key values and convert its keys to strings.
In your case most probably your User object could be empty or a plan string. is this doesnot
work try posting the complete error log