[Rails] Four Days on Rails

[James Knight]

Thanks again John,

It's an excellent tutorial - now I need to go and read up more on mysql, 
as I clearly had a privileges problem earlier ;-)


Did someone mention a Day 5 onwards tutorial ...?

John McCreesh wrote:
> James Knight wrote:
> 
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Thanks for writing this tutorial - it looks exactly what I need.
>>
>> However, I'm having problems setting it up, and wonder whether I'm 
>> missing something obvious.
>>
>> Page 9 - adding the model and scaffold lines to the 
>> categories_controller. Hold on, shouldn't that be category_controller? 
>> At least, that's what's created when I run "ruby script/generate 
>> controller category"
> 
> 
> Thanks - there were a number of errors in the early editions, which 
> thanks to great feedback have been corrected in the latest version.
> 
>> Anyway, when I add the scaffold and test it in a browser, I get this 
>> error:
>>  ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in Category#index
>>
>> Invalid argument: SELECT * FROM categories
>>
>> When I run that select in mysql it runs fine, although there's not yet 
>> any content in there, so it returns an empty set.
>>
>> Surely this shouldn't be an invalid statement.
> 
> 
> No, it should work ok. Pull yourself down a new copy of the .pdf from 
> http://rails.homelinux.org. You can now also download the sample 
> application too. I've moved these two files to another hoster as the 
> number of downloads was swamping my server here, so apologies to anyone 
> inconvenienced by slow downloads.
> 
> John
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