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Ruby Building Web Apps with Sinatra Adding New Data Route Priority

Posted by manu anku
manu anku
Courses Plus Student 1,673 Points

With this app, when a browser sends a GET request with a path of /1/fish, the response will be the string "I see 1 fish!

it is fish question in sinatra

fish.rb 
require "sinatra"

get "/:number/fish" do
  "I see #{params[:number]} fish!"
end

get "/random/fish" do
  "I see "+ Random.rand(20) +" fish!"
end

1 Answer

Jay McGavren
STAFF
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

You actually don't need to change the code in the route blocks at all, you just need to change the order they're defined in. The problem is that the get "/:number/fish" route is also matching requests for the /random/fish path. You need to make it so that get "/random/fish" has priority over get "/:number/fish". You can learn how to do that in this video.