FAQ: Saving Data - Model

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Model” exercise from the lesson “Saving Data”.

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I’m on step 2 and can’t find the file in the editor to open it. The bash console shows that it exists, but I can’t see it.

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How did u solve?
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I don’t think I ever really got it working. I was kind of able to work around the issue by restarting the lesson from the step I was on, but i had similar issues with the entire rails path.

The other workaround ontemember eas tonhave it show the solution, and try to review, but it’s hard to learn much that way.

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why is a database called a “model”? it’s confusing. why not just call it… um, let’s see… a hah!! call it a “DATABASE” !?

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if you look at the response from the console, it says you can create the Messages model by adding “–force” onto the end of your command. That’s how I got it to work for me!

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i read through the rails documentation on creating models, whats mising in the instructions is that you need to create a title and body in the gnerate model command:

rails generate model Message title:string body:text