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Ruby Building Web Apps with Sinatra Finishing Touches A DELETE Request

Christopher Phillips
Christopher Phillips
10,061 Points

What am I doing wrong?

I'm supposed to create a DELETE route path which will delete "/signatures/:index"

As you can see with my code, I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. But I've gone through a few of these challenges now and have had to skip them because I've always been getting an error when creating my routes. Thus, I think I'm doing it wrong. Can someone please shed some light on the subject for me??

views/show.erb
<p><%= @signature %></p>

<form method="post" action="/signatures/<%= @index %>">
  <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="delete">
  <input type="submit" value="Delete This Signature"/>
</form>
guestbook.rb
require "sinatra"

def load_signature(index)
  # Code omitted for brevity
end

def save_signature(signature)
  # Code omitted for brevity
end

def update_signature(index, signature)
  # Code omitted for brevity
end

# Deletes the line at the given index and re-saves the file.
def delete_signature(index)
  lines = File.readlines("signatures.txt")
  index = index.to_i
  lines.delete_at(index)
  File.open("signatures.txt", "w") do |file|
    file.puts lines
  end
end

get "/signatures/new" do
  # Code omitted for brevity
end

get "/signatures/:index" do
  @index = params[:index]
  @signature = load_signature(@index)
  erb 'show'.to_sym
end

delete "/signatures/:index" do

end

1 Answer

Jay McGavren
STAFF
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

It looks like some changes we made on the code challenge runner broke this challenge. That should now be fixed, and your code should pass up through Task 4 as-is. Sorry for the trouble!