From: Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli@...>
Date: 2007-06-16T01:52:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Walking through Tate and Hibbs, running into things that don't work...starting on page 7

Xeno Campanoli wrote:

My next problem is the "greeting" page which I'm supposed to be able to
get just by editing my app/controller/greeting_controller.rb file to be:

class GreetingController < ApplicationController
    def index
        render  :text   => "<h1>Welcome to your first Rails application<h1>"
    end
end

There are some problems with this:

1.  There is no app/controller directory generated.  There is an
app/controllers directory.
2.  The second <h1> tag should presumably be </h1>.
3.  I do not get the diagnostic  that the index is an unknown option
BEFORE I insert lines 2-4 above.  After I do, I get "/greeting not
found" from the browser.

If someone could tell me where I'm going wrong here, it would be good to
get back on track.  I was hoping to make quick work of learning ROR with
this little book, but instead I'm finding it seems more of a roadblock
than anything else with these kinds of confusions.



> First of all, there seems to be this claim on page 7 that the contents
> of script/server is:
> 
> ...
> OPTIONS = {
> 	:port		=> 3000,
> 	:ip		=> "0.0.0.0",
> 	:environment	=> "development",
> 	:server_root	=> "File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) +
> "/../../public/"),
> 	:server_type	=> WEBrick::SimpleServer
> }
> ...
> --snip---
> I'm not seeing the above anywhere, and my chapter-1/script/server has
> the following content:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../config/boot'
> require 'commands/server'
> ---snip---
> Is there an updated instruction in this regard?  I'd like to hook up
> also to Apache and lighthttpd, and presumably that was the old place
> where it was done??
> 
> 


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