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David Heller asked a question in Ruby on Rails Tutorial on March 06, 2010 14:32:

Section 5.3 /users/1/edit doesn't seem to work

Section 5.3: Page 171: "The one additional resource line in Listing 5.25 doesn’t just add a working /users/1 URL; it endows our sample application with all the actions needed for a RESTful user resource (Table 5.2). " At this point should /users/1/edit work? For me I get "Unknown action

No action responded to edit. Actions: new and show"

David Heller asked a question in Ruby on Rails Tutorial on March 04, 2010 04:35:

Are we creating 'app/views/users/show.html.erb'?

Are we creating 'app/views/users/show.html.erb' as discussed in section 5.3.2 or should it already exist through some previous action?

David Heller replied on March 04, 2010 03:13 to the question "typo in 5.2?" in Ruby on Rails Tutorial:

I just downloaded the latest version and it looks like this typo is still in there. It's on page 151 now.

David Heller reported a problem in Ruby on Rails Tutorial on March 02, 2010 03:34:

typo section 5.1, pg 139?

typo section 5.1, pg 139 "The use of self in self.up identifies is as a class method."

'is' should be 'this'?

David Heller replied on February 23, 2010 01:50 to the question "Chapter 4: RegEx test continues to fail" in Ruby on Rails Tutorial:

Again my MO is spend an hour trying to figure it out...post a question to Get Satisfaction..go back and look one more time..realize there is a typo in my work. In this case the upper case 'U' in the controller was the culprit.

David Heller asked a question in Ruby on Rails Tutorial on February 23, 2010 01:39:

Chapter 4: RegEx test continues to fail

Chapter 4: when I test the signup page title

class UsersController < ApplicationController

def new
@title = "Sign Up"
end

end

I continue to get a failure.

'UsersController GET 'new' should have the right title' FAILED
expected but was
<"Ruby on Rails Tutorial Sample App | Sign Up">.
is not true.

The regex doesn't seem to be treated as one in:

require 'spec_helper'

describe UsersController do
integrate_views

describe "GET 'new'" do
it "should be successful" do
get 'new'
response.should be_success
end

it "should have the right title" do
get 'new'
response.should have_tag("title", /Sign up/ )
end

end
end

Any guidance on what I am doing incorrectly is appreciated!

David Heller marked one of Rails Tutorial's replies in Ruby on Rails Tutorial as useful. Rails Tutorial replied to the question "ApplicationHelper not impacting title".

David Heller replied on February 19, 2010 06:17 to the question "ApplicationHelper not impacting title" in Ruby on Rails Tutorial:

I went back a few steps and rewrote and of course it works. Thanks again for writing this book it is really a great resource.

David Heller asked a question in Ruby on Rails Tutorial on February 08, 2010 12:06:

ApplicationHelper not impacting title

It doesn't appear that the app/helpers/application_helper.rb file is having any impact after making the changes in 3.1.1. After making the change in Listing 3.3, only the @title variable is displaying: "Home", "Contact", "Help" or "About" depending on the page. If I comment out the @title on pages_controller than the url is displayed in the title.

I have poured over the code several times looking for typos and haven't found anything.

Any suggestions?

David Heller replied on February 07, 2010 17:24 to the problem "Routing error, Listing 2.2, static pages" in Ruby on Rails Tutorial:

I just ran into this problem and restarted the server, looked in the routes.rb file, googled the error and didn't find anything. The I realized I was just putting http://localhost:3000/about instead of http://localhost:3000/pages/about

That was 25 minutes, but a mistake I won't make again!

David Heller reported a problem in Ruby on Rails Tutorial on February 07, 2010 17:14:

Section 2.4 heroku push

In the section at the end of 2.4 there is a step to push the update to Heroku. The command is

$ git push heroku

that didn't work for me but this did.

$ git push heroku master

Should it have worked without 'master' or is that required?

David Heller marked one of Rails Tutorial's replies in Ruby on Rails Tutorial as useful. Rails Tutorial replied to the problem "typo in section 1.2 of the PDF".

David Heller reported a problem in Ruby on Rails Tutorial on February 05, 2010 14:10:

typo in section 1.2 of the PDF

typo in section 1.2 of the PDF: "we’ll run a local development web sever"

David Heller replied on February 05, 2010 14:05 to the question "A good place for feedback?" in Ruby on Rails Tutorial:

I'm just jumping in to the tutorial today and I'm thrilled that GetSatisfaction is being used. Why roll your own when this infrastructure is in place?