Getting Started with Databases

Hi everyone. Brief intro - I’m in the process of redesigning a website and I’m exploring programming options for the redesign. I discovered ruby in efforts to understand it and maybe make a recommendation.

Anyway, currently I am trying to create a database and a table, and be able to vew and edit it with the web front.

I am working from a tutorial called “Getting Started with Databases” located at http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/TutorialStepOne

is where it begins. I am successfull until the last step where I go to view it online and I get the error message:

NameError in Controller#View

undefined local variable or method for Controller

then it gives me my rails root.

under response it says:

Header:

{“cookie”=>1,

"Cache-Control "=>“no cache”}

I’m using the latest version of ror. Any help to get past this or point me to a truly helpful tutorial with databases will be extremely welcomed and appreciated.

You've kinda missed out the critical information, what the last few bits of the stack trace are...

Guessing you have spelt a variable wrongly somewhere. Be careful following old tutorials with Rails 2.x, a lot has changed.

Paste me the stack trace if you haven't already found the problem for yourself.

Best of luck

Joe