From: Sarah Tanembaum Date: 2005-01-12T16:56:17+09:00 Subject: Ruby on Rails tutorial FAILED on Windows ... I follow the Ruby on Rail documentation, it works up to list method. All other example prior to this works! Under "Displaying the items: part I", I added the following line in the app\controllers\todo_controller.rb def list end And when I reload my browser, or point my browser to http://localhost:3000/todo/list, it gives me �template missing� page. So far so good, as expected. Next, I follow the tutorial to create a blank file in create a blank file in app\views\todo\ called list.rhtml. As instructed, I reloaded my browser and sure it is I got a blank page as expected. Next, I copied the following into the list.rhtml file, My todo list <% @items.each do |@item| %> <%= @item.description %>
<% end %> I save it, and reload my browser. Instead of getting the exptected result, that is "Do my bed", I got a blank page as well. 1) Has this tutorial been tested on Windows environment? 2) Is it because that windows use blackslash(\) for directory separator instead of Unix forward slash(/)? 3) So, I did a little experiment, I try to execute the list.rhtml using erb from console, "erb app\views\todo\list.rhtml". It gives me the following error, (erb):7: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) but then, I remember I have eruby for mswin version 1.04, so just to check it out, I tried with it as well, "eruby app\views\todo\list.rhtml" It still give me the same error as above, plus other things: 7: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) --- generated code --- print "\n" print " \n" print " My todo list\n" print " \n" print "\n" print " \n" print " "; @items.each do |@item| ; print "\n" print " "; print(( @item.description )); print "\n" print "
\n" print " "; end ; print "\n" print " \n" print "\n" ---------------------- So, is it something todo with erb or eruby? As far as I can remember, the .rhtml file is eruby file. How do I correct this problem, otherwise I can even continue to explore Ruby On Rails, because I can't even pass the simplest tutorial. Hellllp! Thanks