Why am I getting undefined method `model_name' for NilClass:Class? - ruby-on-rails-3

I get this when I visit a user's profile page. so localhost:3000/users/1 for example...
I get it here in line 1
1: <%= form_for(#micropost) do |f| %>
2: <%= render 'shared/error_messages', object: f.object %>
3: <div class="field no-indent">
4: <%= f.text_area :content, placeholder: "What's something else you want to buy?" %>
so then I have two micropost forms one is here
<%= form_for(#micropost, :html => { :id => "sale" }) do |f| %>
<%= render 'shared/error_messages', object: f.object %>
<div class="field no-indent">
<%= f.text_area :content, placeholder: "What's something else you want to buy?" %>
<%= hidden_field_tag 'micropost[kind]', "sale" %>
</div>
<%= f.submit "Post", class: "btn btn-large btn-primary" %>
<% end %>
and another one is here
<%= form_for(#micropost) do |f| %>
<%= render 'shared/error_messages', object: f.object %>
<div class="field no-indent">
<%= f.text_area :content, placeholder: "What's something else you want to buy?" %>
<%= hidden_field_tag 'micropost[kind]', "purchase" %>
</div>
<%= f.submit "Post", class: "btn btn-large btn-primary" %>
<% end %>
Here is my routes.
SampleApp::Application.routes.draw do
resources :users do
resources :comments
member do
get :following, :followers
end
end
resources :sessions, only: [:new, :create, :destroy]
resources :microposts, only: [:create, :destroy] do
resources :comments
resources :kind
end
resources :relationships, only: [:create, :destroy]
root to: 'static_pages#home'
match '/signup', to: 'users#new'
match '/signin', to: 'sessions#new'
match '/signout', to: 'sessions#destroy', via: :delete
match '/help', to: 'static_pages#help'
match '/about', to: 'static_pages#about'
match '/contact', to: 'static_pages#contact'
and here is the code for the page itself (users show)
<section>
<%= render 'shared/user_info' %>
</section>
<section>
<div id= "purchases">
<%= render 'shared/micropost_form_purchase' %>
</div>
<div id="sales">
<%= render 'shared/micropost_form_sale' %>
</div>
</section>
<% provide(:title, #user.name) %>
<div class="row">
<aside class="span4">
<section>
<h1>
<%= gravatar_for #user %>
<%= #user.name %>
</h1>
</section>
</aside>
<div class="span8">
<% if #user.microposts.any? %>
<h3>Purchases I am interested in (<%= #user.microposts.count %>)</h3>
<ol class="microposts">
<%= render #microposts %>
</ol>
<%= will_paginate #microposts %>
<% end %>
</div>
</div>
also I dont understand how you can pass an empty object into form for? Isn't the whole point of the form to create the object?

According to the article which I stumbled upon today it may be that the object you are passing to form_for (#micropost in this case) is nil or empty.
Here's the mentioned article: http://schneems.com/post/31460949407/raise-hell-better-programming-through-error-messages

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<div class="rpw">
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private
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I am unsure where I am going wrong. Please help me. I have been trying to fix this for a few days now.
In new.html.erb
try changing
<%= form_for "/contacts" do |f| %>
to
<%= form_for #contact do |f| %>

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I have a simple form that allows you to select users and select a hospital. The form successfully submits. However when I view the index.html.erb, it looks like the following: [imgur][1]. Any idea why the "Full name" and "Hospital" is not appearing?
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :booking_reference %>
<br/>
<%= f.text_field :booking_reference %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= fields_for :User do |user| %>
<%= user.collection_select :user_id, User.all, :id, :full_name %>
<% end %>
</div>
<div class="field">
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Wouldn't that be like
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and
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<div class="field">
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<br/>
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<% if #user.errors.any? %>
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<%= f.text_field :name %>
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<div class="field">
<%= f.label :email %><br />
<%= f.text_field :email %>
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<%= f.label :login %><br />
<%= f.text_field :login %>
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Advices to clean this show.html.erb view (Rails)?

The following view shows a single post and its comments:
views/posts/show.html.erb:
<h2>posts show</h2>
<span>Title: <%= #post.title %></span><br />
<span>Content: <%= #post.content %></span><br />
<span>User: <%= #post.user.username %></span><br />
<div class="post-<%= #post.id %>">
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<%= link_to "Vote Down", vote_down_path(#votable, :votable_type => "Post"), :remote => true, :class => "vote-down" %><br />
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<p><%= link_to 'Order by Votes', post_path(#post, :order_by => "total_votes DESC") %></p>
<% #comments.map do |comment| %>
<div class="comment-<%= comment.id %>">
<p>
<b>Comment:</b>
<%= comment.content %>
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<p>
<b>Vote:</b>
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<div class='voted-user'>
<% comment.votes.each do |vote| %>
<%= link_to vote.user.username, vote.user %>
<% end %>
</div>
</p>
<p>
<b>Commenter</b>
<%= link_to comment.user.username, comment.user %>
</p>
<p>
<b>Link</b>
<%= link_to "Show Post Comment", [#post, comment] %>
</p>
<p>
<b>Vote</b>
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</p>
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<%= will_paginate #comments %>
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<%= form_for([#post, #post.comments.build]) do |f| %>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :content %><br />
<%= f.text_area :content %>
</div>
<div class="actions">
<%= f.submit %>
</div>
<% end %>
<% if current_user.id == #post.user_id %>
<%= link_to 'Edit', edit_post_path(#post) %> |
<% end %>
<%= link_to 'Back', posts_path %>
I just focused on making things work so I totally forgot to make it clean.
I'm a Rails beginner and I would like some suggestions or advises to clean this view
(if you suggest to move code to another file please mention the name of the file and the directoy). Thanks in advance.
Good on you for wanting to clean it up. This is some of what I would do. I've included some examples of a few things here: Partials, Helpers, and also cleaned up the HTML a little to allow more control over the style in your stylesheets (which I left out, but you can figure out that part I'm sure). If this was my project, I would extract everything even more (for example, I would probably move the entre "edit/back" links at the bottom, as well as the "Order" links, to their own partials or helpers, since I would probably be using them in a lot of places throughout the application.) And if your comments are polymorphic (i.e., not just for posts), then definitely move that into its own view file. Also, I did this a rather quickly, so it might have some errors, sorry if you find any.
_post.html.erb
<article class="post-info">
<span class="title"><b>Title:</b> <%= post.title %></span>
<p><%= post.content %></p>
<span class="user"><b>User:</b> <%= post.user.username %></span>
</article>
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<div class="vote-count"><%= post.total_votes %></span> votes
<ul class="voted-user">
<% post.votes.each do |vote| %>
<li><%= link_to vote.user.username, vote.user %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
<ul class="voting">
<li><%= link_to "Vote Up", vote_up_path(post, :votable_type => "Post"), :remote => true, :class => "vote-up" %></li>
<li><%= link_to "Vote Down", vote_down_path(post, :votable_type => "Post"), :remote => true, :class => "vote-down" %></li>
</ul>
_comment.html.erb
<div class="comment" id="comment-<%=comment.id%>">
<article class="comment">
<b>Comment:</b> <%= comment.content %>
</article>
<div class="votes-total">
<b>Votes:</b> <span class="vote-count"><%= comment.total_votes %></span>
<ul class='voted-user'>
<% comment.votes.each do |vote| %>
<li><%= link_to vote.user.username, vote.user %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="commenter">
<b>Commenter:</b> <%= link_to comment.user.username, comment.user %>
</div>
<div class="link">
<b>Link:</b> <%= link_to "Show Post Comment", [comment.post, comment] %>
</div>
<div class="vote">
<b>Vote:</b> <%= link_to "Vote Up", vote_up_path(comment, :votable_type => "Comment"), :remote => true, :class => "vote-up" %>
</div>
</div> <!-- .comment -->
show.html.erb
<h2>Posts</h2>
<%= render #post %>
<h2>Comments</h2>
<ul class="order">
<li><%= link_to 'Order by Date', post_path(#post, :order_by => "created_at ASC") %></li>
<li><%= link_to 'Order by Votes', post_path(#post, :order_by => "total_votes DESC") %></li>
</ul>
<%= render #comments %>
<%= will_paginate #comments %>
<h2>Add a Comment</h2>
<%= form_for([#post, #post.comments.build]) do |f| %>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :content %>
<%= f.text_area :content %>
</div>
<div class="actions">
<%= f.submit %>
</div>
<% end %>
<ul class="manage">
<li><%= edit_link_if_allowed(current_user, #post) %></li>
<li><%= link_to 'Back', posts_path %></li>
</ul>
Posts Helper
def edit_link_if_allowed(current_user, post)
link_to "Edit", edit_post_path(post) if post.user_id == current_user.id
end
You could use Partials