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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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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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