# Error 500 when displaying after creating a controller

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 27, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-500-when-displaying-after-creating-a-controller/113096 "2007-08-27T17:01:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![arte\_fact](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@arte\_fact](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/arte_fact)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-500-when-displaying-after-creating-a-controller/113096/1 "2007-08-27T17:01:45Z")

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Hello,

I’m currently learning RoR but I’m facing yp to a displaying issue.  
I created a RoR project via the command rails project in the OS Linux  
Ubuntu  
Then, I also created a controller:

sudo script/generate controller about  
exists app/controllers/  
exists app/helpers/  
create app/views/about  
exists test/functional/  
create app/controllers/about\_controller.rb  
create test/functional/about\_controller\_test.rb  
create app/helpers/about\_helper.rb

When firing up firefox with this url

[http://localhost:3000/about](http://localhost:3000/about)

I get 500 error :

script/server  
=\> Booting WEBrick…  
=\> Rails application started on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)  
=\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options  
[2007-08-27 00:06:35] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1  
[2007-08-27 00:06:35] INFO ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-linux]  
[2007-08-27 00:06:35] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=6117  
port=3000  
127.0.0.1 - - [27/Aug/2007:00:06:39 CEST] “GET /about HTTP/1.1” 500  
941

- → /about  
127.0.0.1 - - [27/Aug/2007:00:06:41 CEST] “GET /about HTTP/1.1” 500  
941
- → /about  
127.0.0.1 - - [27/Aug/2007:00:06:49 CEST] “GET /about HTTP/1.1” 500  
941
- → /about  
127.0.0.1 - - [27/Aug/2007:00:15:05 CEST] “GET /about HTTP/1.1” 500  
941
- → /about

Could this come from the route.rb file knowing that I moved the  
index.html file

more routes.rb  
ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|

# The priority is based upon order of creation: first created →

highest prior  
ity.

# Sample of regular route:

# map.connect ‘products/:id’, :controller =\> ‘catalog’, :action =\>

‘view’

# Keep in mind you can assign values other than :controller

and :action

# Sample of named route:

# map.purchase ‘products/:id/purchase’, :controller =\>

‘catalog’, :action =\> ’  
purchase’

# This route can be invoked with purchase\_url(:id =\> product.id)

# You can have the root of your site routed by hooking up ‘’

# – just remember to delete public/index.html.

# map.connect ‘’, :controller =\> “welcome”

# Allow downloading Web Service WSDL as a file with an extension

# instead of a file named ‘wsdl’

map.connect ‘:controller/service.wsdl’, :action =\> ‘wsdl’

# Install the default route as the lowest priority.

map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’  
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’  
end

Any help will be appreciated.

arte\_fact

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**Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/error-500-when-displaying-after-creating-a-controller/113096/2 "2007-08-27T18:07:54Z")

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check in logs/development.log  
You’ll probably find some useful errors there cluing you into what went  
wrong.

arte\_fact wrote:

> create app/views/about
> 
> - → /about  
> Could this come from the route.rb file knowing that I moved the  
> ‘view’
> 
> # – just remember to delete public/index.html.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> arte\_fact
> 
> >

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