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Hello Chris, I am facing the issue while sign in locally (it shows password and email are invalid) even my production site is not giving me this issue, Please help.
Thanks in advance!

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I have resolved this issue by my own, but I do not know why do I had to run rails db:seed command again to populate my database with the predefined seed data that I had already set up in my seed.rb file.

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In the last video we changed the database to PostgreSQL and had to re-create the databases. As a result, this caused us to lose our data on our local machines. Therefore we needed to run rails db:seed again to populate it with the user so that we can login.

Hopefully that explains the issues you were having :D

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Sure, Thanks a lot!

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Hi Chris, one thing wasn´t clear to me. Why do we need those helper methods (draft?, published?, scheduled?), since setting the scopes already give us the ability to get BlogPost.draf and so on?

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The scopes work at the class level, so those will get you a collection of BlogPost records that are all either drafts, published, or scheduled.

The helpers are instance methods, designed to be used with a single blog post instance/record.

The helpers/instance methods are nice because it will not always be the case that you want a collection of draft posts, for example, you may be on the show page for a particular blog post and you could then use the helpers/instance methods to check the published_at status of that particular blog post instance.
Hope that helps!

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Thanks! Great explanation :))

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The CSS for draft posts is working, but for some reason the CSS isn't being applied to scheduled posts.

Works:

Draft

Doesn't work:

Scheduled
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Hi Jonathan, I have the same issue.

It works if you use the same css, but if you change the css, it doesn't work:

works for both:

<% if blog_post.draft? %>
  <div class="p-2 rounded bg-gray-100 text-gray-900">Draft</div>
<% elsif blog_post.scheduled? %>
  <div class="p-2 rounded bg-gray-100 text-gray-900">Scheduled</div>
<% end %>

works only for draft:

<% if blog_post.draft? %>
  <div class="p-2 rounded bg-gray-100 text-gray-900">Draft</div>
<% elsif blog_post.scheduled? %>
  <div class="p-2 rounded bg-blue-100 text-gray-900">Scheduled</div>
<% end %>
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Did anyone find a solution for this? I'm facing the same issue

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Bumping up for March. I have the same issue; nothing I've tried has made the scheduled color work.

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Use the bin/dev command to start your server as noted in video 12 (Adding TailwindCSS to Rails). Otherwise the site does not get all the tailwindcss built in.

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This still seems to be an issue :( I even tried setting multiple other colors and only gray seems to work

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Addendum: Whilst it does not display locally for me correctly, it does when I connect via Render page ... weird

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bin/dev fails for me, for some reason, even that show in terminal that "css build..."etc, for me what that help was explicitly build css with:
rake tailwindcss:build

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My posts aren't displaying in the correct order. I have the following line in my blog_post.rb:

scope :sorted, -> { order(published_at: :desc, updated_at: :desc) }

And in my controller I have:

def index
@blog_posts = user_signed_in? ? BlogPost.sorted : BlogPost.published.sorted
end

The order seems to be the opposite of what shows in the video.

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Facing the same issue

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For future viewers, the wrong sorting where drafts can appear on top has been addressed in the following video "Sorting Blog Posts With Scopes". Essentially a postgresql version mismatch can cause this inconsistency. In the follow-up video, Chris explicitly pushes NULLs last, as the deployment surfaces this issue.

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If anyone also has timezone issues with scheduled posts, make sure to set it inside config/application.rb.
You also need to save the post again to reflect that new timezone.

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The helpers are instance methods, designed to be used with a single blog post instance/record.

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You probably increase your subscibers if you have a team that is soley dedicated to problems that arise out of your lessons.. I came here in 2021 and soon realised that errors arise but the time you get back to the problems are years.. and here i am again in 2024 trying again with the same amount of problems.. so why pay? youtube and chat gpt are better options I guess

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