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Ruby Building Web Apps with Sinatra Updating Data Submitting the Edit Form Via PUT Request

Building Web Apps with Sinatra Challenge Task 5 of 6

Whats wrong?

views/edit.erb
<p>Please enter your name below.</p>

<form method = "post" action ="/signatures/<%= @index %>"  >
  <input type="text" name="signature" value="<%= @signature %>">
  <input type="submit">
  <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="put">
</form>
guestbook.rb
require "sinatra"

def load_signature(index)
  # Code omitted for brevity
end

# Updates the line at the given index and re-saves the file.
def update_signature(index, signature)
  lines = File.readlines("signatures.txt")
  index = index.to_i
  lines[index] = signature
  File.open("signatures.txt", "w") do |file|
    file.puts lines
  end
end

get "/:index/edit" do
  # Code omitted for brevity
end

get "/signatures/new" do
  # Code omitted for brevity
end


put "/signatures/0" do
  index(params["/signatures/0"]) 
  end
put "/signatures/:index" do
  update_signature(params["index"], params["signatures"])
end

3 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Check again if the second parameter passed to update_signature should be called "signatures" (plural) or "signature" (singular). Also, note that when accessing values in the params hash, we usually use symbols, not strings, so [:index] instead of ["index"]. This should put you on the right track.

You need to switch from quotation marks to colons when you are indexing a hash.

put "/signatures/:index" do update_signature(params[:index], params[:signature]) end

Zarela Graves
Zarela Graves
9,920 Points
put "/signatures/:index" do
  update_signature(params[:index], params[:signature])
end