Ruby On Rails Getting Started question

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Hi All, I am going through the getting started guide here http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html And in section 5.7 it refers to a code snippet that I don’t understand what to do with it. post ``GET /posts/``:id``(.``:format``) posts``#show

I don’t understand if I am supposed to put this code somewhere or not. The guide doesn’t tell me exactly. I also noticed the same sort of code is discussed in section 5.8 where it mentions

posts ``GET /posts(.``:format``) posts``#index

Any help would be great.

Thanks!

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That's `rake routes` output, and translates roughly to: `get "/posts/:id", :to => "posts#show", :as => :post` in config/routes.rb

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I suggest working through the tutorial at railstutorial.org (which is free to use online). For absolute beginners I think it is better than the rails guide.

Colin