'Wrong constant name name:stringController

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Hi Guys, I'm totally new to RoR and have been using the following website as reference

http://developer.apple.com/tools/developonrailsleopard.html

It works fine up until the part where i have to type the following into Terminal.

script/generate scaffold event name:string budget:decimal

i get the following error

wrong constant name Name:stringController

I have followed only the actions set out in the above link, and it is a fresh install of Leopard.

Can anyone help me find out where i've gone wrong.. at such an early stage!

Thanks again

Andy

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Hi Guys, I'm totally new to RoR and have been using the following website as reference

http://developer.apple.com/tools/developonrailsleopard.html

It works fine up until the part where i have to type the following
into Terminal.

script/generate scaffold event name:string budget:decimal

i get the following error

wrong constant name Name:stringController

I have followed only the actions set out in the above link, and it
is a fresh install of Leopard.

Does this mean you haven't update rails ? Leopard ships with 1.2.6
IIRC, and that article says it requires 2.0.2

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I get the same error while using Aptana's IDE with rails 2.0.2.

4

I've only just installed leopard, and then xcode 3.

following these commands from (http://developer.apple.com/tools/developonrailsleopard.html) led me to the above error message

sudo gem update --system sudo gem install rails sudo gem update rake sudo gem update sqlite3-ruby *do start server script(script/server)* rails expenses script/generate scaffold event name:string budget:decimal - wrong constant name Name:stringController

have i missed out an action?

5

Does anyone have ideas about this? This problem is a big hinder to development.

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following these commands from (http://developer.apple.com/tools/developonrailsleopard.html) led me to the above error message

sudo gem update --system sudo gem install rails sudo gem update rake sudo gem update sqlite3-ruby *do start server script(script/server)*

I don't see that line anywhere on the referenced page...

rails expenses

OK, so you created a new project -- before you did anything else did you start the server to see if it ran "out of the box"? Or run `script/about`? I'd do those first.

script/generate scaffold event name:string budget:decimal - wrong constant name Name:stringController

You also might updating your Rails version to something close to current, create a new project with it, see if that basically runs, and then try generating your scaffold.

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So I did a update and it says it updated rails, but there is no difference when I run scaffold.

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So I did a update and it says it updated rails, but there is no difference when I run scaffold.

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So what's the output of both of the above?

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I still get the "Wrong constant name:stringController"

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so I have been using Aptana Studio as an IDE. I am on Mac OS 10.5, so I went to the terminal and typed in

"sudo gem update --system"

and let it run through the updates, and in the terminal i typed in "rails expenses" and it worked and then i typed in "script/generate scaffold events ..." and I didnt get any errors. I hope this works for others! :slight_smile: