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HTML Rails Partials and Helpers Ruby on Rails Helpers The new item link helper

Posted by Simon Walsh
Simon Walsh
Courses Plus Student 1,741 Points

Why does the New todo list link fail for Jason?

I am having some trouble understanding why the New todo list link fails for Jason in this video.

Based upon the application helper code, I fail to see why the 

           if @todo_list

code runs. On the index page, the @todo_list is not instantiated.....it only occurs AFTER the New todo list button is clicked.

Is this the point? That this is the one situation where we have a @todo_list instantiated in the todo_list controller and therefore the code runs......

Apologies for this slightly convoluted question

Simon

Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

You might have better luck getting a response to this question if you categorize it under Ruby.

Unfortunately, I'm not quite up to this stage yet, so I can't help you with your question.