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billybeb
billybeb

Reputation: 13

Rails controller view bug

Alright total noob, tried to find out what was happening but I haven't seen this come up with anyone else as far as I could find.

I'm going through a very basic blog tutorial with rails for the second time. made the home controller and the index view for it. all good. Next i made the 'posts' controller with basic classes and then views for index, edit, new, and show.

class PostsController < ApplicationController
def index

end

def new

end

def create

end

def edit

end

def update

end

def show

end

def destroy

end
end

The html for the views in their respective files

<h1>New Posts</h1>
<h1>Edit Posts</h1>
<h1>Show Posts</h1>

PROBLEM: In the browser when I go to localhost:3000/posts/edit it displays "Show Posts" instead of "Edit Posts". /show also displays "Show Posts". /new works fine and displays "New Posts".

I checked and it looks like localhost:3000/posts/literallyanything will display "Show posts".

I know this is potato level but I thought it was really odd and can't figure out why that would happen

Upvotes: 1

Views: 54

Answers (1)

NM Pennypacker
NM Pennypacker

Reputation: 6942

Assuming you have a resource route for posts defined in your routing file like this:

resources :posts

you need to hit

localhost:3000/posts/<post id>/edit

More docs on routing here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html

You can always run rake:routes from your terminal to find out what route you need to hit for any given controller action.

Upvotes: 2

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