Default Page Only?

I have installed RoR on and XP machine running XAMPP. I followed the installation steps provided from here: http://tinyurl.com/6py2v7

and I am following a Lynda.com tutorial found here: http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=324

I'm still VERY early in the tut and it says to create a controller called "Say". Did that and found it in the project folder i created (railz) railz/app/controllers/say_controller.rb

I'm then told to edit the say_controller and add: def hello end

so it now looks like: class SayController < ApplicationController   def hello   end end I'm then told to go to localhost:3000/say/hello and in doing so i get a 404 error. have I missed something?

DizzyD wrote:

I'm then told to go to localhost:3000/say/hello and in doing so i get a 404 error. have I missed something?

Have you started the server?

there is no server to start. Apache is running. When i visit localhost: 3000/ i get the index page. Wouldn't that mean the server's running? If not i've tried "ruby script/server" and i tries to run webrick but then i get an error, i think because of apache already running. You can see the url below: cleanproweb.com:3000/

ok, so i have apache running, but when i shut it down and run webrick, it works. But then my apache isn't running so EVERYTHING else serverwise, is down. Any ideas?

Hi, did you create a file called ‘hello.html.erb’ in your <RAILS_APP_PATH>/app/views/say directory?

Good luck,

-Conrad

Shandy Nantz wrote:

Have you started the server?

I have apache running, so i can run webrick at the same time. However, with you saying so, I shutdown apache and ran webrick. In doing so my pages worked! However, with apache down, the rest of my entire server was down. Do you know of a solution for this? Perhaps making ruby run on apache?

Hi, I have been able to run both Apache and Mongrel without any issues because Apache is listening on port 80 and Mongrel on port 3000. In any case, if you don’t need Apache up while learning Rails, then by all means shut it down because Mongrel is sufficient for local development.

Good luck,

-Conrad