- Introduction 2:03
- Creating a Route 4:45
- Creating a Route 4 questions
- Viewing Routes 1 objective
- Adding a Route 1 objective
- Creating a Controller 2:39
- Creating a Controller 1 objective
- Creating a View 1:29
- Creating a View 1 question
- Creating a Model 3:32
- Creating a Model 1 objective
- Adding Records via Rails Console 3:17
- Populating the View 8:57
- Populating the View 2 objectives
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Creating a View
1:29We've set up a route so that the user's browser request makes it to the index action method on the PagesController. But the controller is attempting to render a view, and we haven't created one. So the request is failing. Let's create one now.
We're getting a new error when
we try to load the /pages path.
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PagesController#index is
missing a template.
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We've set up a route so that the user's
browser request makes it to the index
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action method on the pages controller.
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But the controller is attempting to render
a view and we haven't created one.
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So the request is failing.
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Our request is being processed
by the pages controller.
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By default, rails is going to
look in the app views directory
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in a sub-directory with the same
name as the controller.
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The pages sub-directory was
created automatically for
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us back when we generated
the pages controller.
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The index action method is handling
our request so rails will look for
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any ERB template file with the same
name as the action by default.
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Here in the pages sub-directory
let's create a file named
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index.html.erb that's in all lowercase.
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Rails is going to look for
this specific file name.
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So make sure you don't make
any typos in the filename.
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We won't do anything fancy right now.
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Let's just get the template
displaying something.
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We'll add a Level One heading, Blog Pages.
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Then we'll save the file.
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Now if we go back to the browser and
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refresh the page, the template will be
rendered and we'll see our heading.
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Now we're routing the browser request
controller, rendering a view, and
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sending a response back to
the browser without any errors.
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We're not really showing
anything useful though.
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Up next we're going to create
a model class to hold page data.
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