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Ruby Building Web Apps with Sinatra ERB Templates URL Parameters

Posted by Fabian Pijpers
Fabian Pijpers
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This one really works me up. Does anyone see what i miss here!

with regarding name + Hello string

hello.rb 
require "sinatra"

get "/greet/:name" do
  # YOUR CODE HERE
  puts "Hello" + name.erb
end

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there, Fabian Pijpers! First, you don't need the puts as it should return the value and not necessarily display it. The second thing is that you need the params here. If I go to the URL /greet/Fabian/ I'm expecting it to return the string "HelloFabian" (though, yes, it lacks a comma). So what you're wanting here is a good old fashioned concatenation.

# concatenate the params onto Hello
"Hello" + params[:name]

Hope this helps! :sparkles: