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Peter
Peter

Reputation: 1749

Template is missing in Rails

I'm learning Ruby-on-Rails. For this I have a 'hello world' sample. Thats my config/routes.rb:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
   root 'application#show'
end

controllers/application_controller.rb:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  protect_from_forgery with: :exception

  def show
    render 'startpage'
  end
end

And finally my views/startpage.html.erb:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Hello World!</title>
</head>

<body id="index" class="home"><h1>Hello World!!</h1>
</body>
</html>

But when I open my site I get this error:

Template is missing
Missing template application/startpage with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :coffee, :jbuilder]}. Searched in: * "/home/ubuntu/workspace/app/views"

So, am I missing something or has the startpage.html.erb file somewhere else?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1389

Answers (1)

Wes Foster
Wes Foster

Reputation: 8900

Your template would need to be inside of /views/application for the convention to work.

Rails looks inside of /views/CONTROLLER/action by convention without specifying a specific location.

/views/application/startpage.html.erb should work in your situation.

Bonus learning points:

A common practice I see for creating normal, static pages, is a PagesController which handles each of them. Doing this, your route would point to pages#startpage and your view would be inside of /views/pages/startpage.html.erb -- Just a tip!

Upvotes: 1

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