As Colin said, you shouldn't be getting the exact same error at the exact same place. Would be good to check it out.
Based on the code you posted, you are not using ActiveRecord features in Upload model, so do away with it and use ActiveModel instead. Here's a great Railscast on this - http://railscasts.com/episodes/219-active-model I have modified the code a little bit to use ActiveModel instead of ActiveRecord. This should work fine. Here it is - https://gist.github.com/1039543 There are still some issue with the code with respect to following standards. You should rename the index action to be 'new', because that's what it is doing. Similarly, change the view file from upload.rhtml to new.html.erb Name of the controller should be plural, so it should be uploads controller. I am also assuming that you have a route in place in your routes.rb for upload, if not, it should have something like this: resource :upload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/rSyybUgdcXwJ. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.