Rails: Devise: Undefined Method `username'-Collection of common programming errors

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When using devise I keep getting this error when I try to load the sign up page with the new field “username”

undefined method `username' for #

This is in devise under registrations:

3:  resource_name, :url => registration_path(resource_name), html: { class: 'form-horizontal'}) do |f| %>
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This is in models in user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
 # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
 # :token_authenticatable, :confirmable,
 # :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
   devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
     :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

 # Setup accessible (or protected) attributes for your model
 attr_accessible :username, :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me
 # attr_accessible :title, :body
 end

To set it up I put the following commands through terminal:

rails generate migration AddUsernameToUsers username:string
bundle exec rake db:migrate

Through previous questions I put these commands through terminal:

rake db:schema:load

The error doesn’t let me even access the page. Unlike other questions where it happens after you click sign up.

Edit

After restarting my server a few times it is now automatically exiitng the local server with this error:

Called from: /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/actionpack-     3.2.8/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/session/abstract_store.rb:28:in `initialize'.
Exiting
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:469:in `load': /Users/hunter/first_app/app/models/view.rb:11: syntax error, unexpected keyword_end (SyntaxError)

Edit

This is in models/view.rb:

class View < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
  # :token_authenticatable, :confirmable,
  # :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
     :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

  # Setup accessible (or protected) attributes for your model
  attr_accessible :username, :email, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me,
  # attr_accessible :title, :body
end

Edit

I removed the comma at the end of :remember_me in models/view.rb and now the server works. I can now load it on localhost:3000. However, when I click the sign up page I get the same error as before.

  1. If you want login using either your username or password, you have a very good explanation over here: Devise login using your username or email address

    If you want to login only using your username, you’ll have to change your authentication_key from your devise.rb configuration file:

      # ==> Configuration for any authentication mechanism
  # Configure which keys are used when authenticating a user. The default is
  # just :email. You can configure it to use [:username, :subdomain], so for
  # authenticating a user, both parameters are required. Remember that those
  # parameters are used only when authenticating and not when retrieving from
  # session. If you need permissions, you should implement that in a before filter.
  # You can also supply a hash where the value is a boolean determining whether
  # or not authentication should be aborted when the value is not present.
  config.authentication_keys = [ :username ]

    Also you’ll have to modify your registration and session views according to your authentication_key.

    In devise/registrations/new.html.erb:

    3:  resource_name, :url => registration_path(resource_name), html: { class: 'form-horizontal'}) do |f| %>
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    In devise/registrations/edit.html.erb:

    3:  resource_name, :url => registration_path(resource_name), html: { class: 'form-horizontal'}) do |f| %>
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    In devise/sessions/new.html.erb:

    3:  resource_name, :url => registration_path(resource_name), html: { class: 'form-horizontal'}) do |f| %>
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Originally posted 2013-11-09 21:09:06.