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Ruby Rails Routes and Resources A Route to a Read Action Creating a Show View

Posted by anthonybrackner
anthonybrackner
17,776 Points

Getting Error After Adding show.html.erb file to pages.

I'm getting a syntax error in PagesController#index after adding the show.html.erb to views.

It's giving the following code I have written as an error:

<% @pages.each do |page| %> <p><%= link_to page.title, page) %></p> <% end %>

I've looked it over several times and don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas? The error occurs when I go to localhost:3000/pages. Everything else seems to work fine. When I put the id at the end of the url, the title and body shows up like it should.

1 Answer

Eric Butler
Eric Butler
33,512 Points
Eric Butler
Eric Butler
33,512 Points

Look at this again:

<%= link_to page.title, page) %>

You have a closing parenthesis but no opening one. This is why I'm kinda skeptical about Ruby's "parentheses are optional" language rule, it's easy to mess up. But in this case, either add or remove them and you should be good to go. Cheers.

anthonybrackner
anthonybrackner
17,776 Points

Excellent catch Eric! Everything is working now. Thanks so much!