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CHarris
CHarris

Reputation: 2793

Rails 3.2.7 and link_to

First of all, pretty new to Rails. I've been following a tutorial on using the 'link_to' command - basically, I have some links with text 'About Us', 'FAQ', 'Contact Us', and I want them to link to their respective pages.

Following the tutorial, the code in my contact_us.html.erb file goes like this:

<%= link_to "About Us", {:controller => ‘static_pages’, :action => ’about_us’} %>

My controller is called static_pages_controller.rb and I have an about_us method in that file, with no code in it:

def about_us
end

My controller code is:

class StaticPagesController < ApplicationController
  def about_us
  end

  def faq
  end

  def contact_us
  end

  def t_and_c
  end

  def t_and_c_competition
  end

  def show
  end
end

I get the error:

NameError in Static_pages#contact_us

undefined local variable or method `‘static_pages'......etc

Any ideas what's wrong? I think it might be because the tutorial is for ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.0.2, and I have Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 3.2.7. I heard Rails is notorious for not being backwards compatible. Should I change my code? To what? Thanks for any help.

C.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 483

Answers (2)

CHarris
CHarris

Reputation: 2793

I added this to my routes.rb:

get "static_pages/about_us"

and now it works. Thanks for your help!

Upvotes: 0

FedeX
FedeX

Reputation: 446

Hi I think your problem it's you are using ’ instead of normal single quotes (') or doubled quotes (") when passing the parameters values in the link_to method

Change this:

<%= link_to "About Us", {:controller => ‘static_pages’, :action => ’about_us’} %>

to this:

<%= link_to "About Us", {:controller => 'static_pages', :action => 'about_us'} %>

Upvotes: 1

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