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Kurt Peek
Kurt Peek

Reputation: 57551

Rails website still at "Welcome aboard" where I expect to see content

I'm trying to build Rails blogger site following a tutorial, but I'm not seeing the expected web page. I've done the following:

1) I've modified the config/routes.rb file to look as follows:

Blogger::Application.routes.draw do
    resources :articles
end

2) In db/migrate, there is a "_create_articles.rb" which I've modified to the following:

class CreateArticles < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :articles do |t|
            t.string :title
            t.text :body

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

In the console, I've defined several instances of the "Article" class, assigned "title" and "body" attributes, and saved them, which I confirmed by calling "Article.all" in the console:

irb(main):001:0> Article.all
  Article Load (1.7ms)  SELECT "articles".* FROM "articles"
=> #<ActiveRecord::Relation [#<Article id: 1, title: "Sample Article Title", body: "This is the text for my article, woo hoo!", created_at: "2016-06-17 18:18:33", updated_at: "2016-06-17 18:18:33">, #<Article id: 2, title: "This is the second sample article", body: "Text for the second sample article", created_at: "2016-06-17 18:19:35", updated_at: "2016-06-17 18:19:35">, #<Article id: 3, title: "Third article!", body: "Lorem ipsum", created_at: "2016-06-17 18:20:01", updated_at: "2016-06-17 18:20:01">]>

I've also started the Rails server using the "rails server" command in project directory. However, if I go to localhost:3000 I still see the "Welcome aboard" screen (shown below), whereas I would expect at this point to see an error message "Unknown action - The action 'index' could not be found for ArticlesController".

In fact, I have been at this point before in the tutorial, but I've since closed everything and reopened it, and now I no longer see the website I expect, or any error message. Any ideas what could be amiss?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 127

Answers (1)

Uzbekjon
Uzbekjon

Reputation: 11813

You need to set a root page in your routes.rb file to get rid of that page in development environment.

Blogger::Application.routes.draw do
    resources :articles
    root 'articles#index'
end

Upvotes: 5

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