From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-01-25T04:42:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Use of scaffolding in the ONLamp Rails tutorial

Lyle Johnson wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:34:20 +0900, Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the problem is your browser caching the pages. Try
> forcing a page
> > re-load. or exiting and restarting your browser.
>
> I think I just now figured out what I was doing wrong. I was
> mistakenly typing the controller name in uppercase letters, e.g.
>
>     http://localhost:3000/Recipe/new
>
> instead of:
>
>     http://localhost:3000/recipe/new
>
> In the former case, there's no error message (that was obvious to me)
> printed to the development.log file -- other than, of course, the
> application didn't behave as expected. ;)
>
> I do not know enough about Rails yet to know if this is the kind of
> error which Rails could have automatically detected and warned me
> about. If nothing else, this might be a good one to add to the
> "gotchas" list for Rails, if there is such a thing. ;)

Yeah, I just recently became aware of this myself. I'll probably say
something about in part 2 of the tutorial.

Curt