"Missing Template" when manually creating views

Rails
1

Hi everyone,

I am trying to set up a controller and a view manually, without the
aid of scaffolding (though I am using a scaffolded model as reference).

I have set up my controller like this:

class RecetasController < ApplicationController
def index
respond_to do |format|
format.html #index.html.erb
end
end
end

I have created a single file named index.html.erb inside
app/views/receta. So far in only has a few HTML lines. When I access
http://localhost:3000/recetas, I get this message on my browser:

“Missing template recetas/index.erb in view path app/views”

What gives? Scaffolded models generate .html.erb files and they work
right! So I go ahead and change my view to be named index.erb. I still
get the same error message! What am I missing?

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tuti plain wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am trying to set up a controller and a view manually, without the
aid of scaffolding (though I am using a scaffolded model as reference).

I have set up my controller like this:

class RecetasController < ApplicationController
def index
respond_to do |format|
format.html #index.html.erb
end
end
end

I have created a single file named index.html.erb inside
app/views/receta. So far in only has a few HTML lines. When I access
http://localhost:3000/recetas, I get this message on my browser:

“Missing template recetas/index.erb in view path app/views”

What gives? Scaffolded models generate .html.erb files and they work
right! So I go ahead and change my view to be named index.erb. I still
get the same error message! What am I missing?

Could you please give the log printed in the webrick ?

Actually I faced this error during the time of placing wrong code inside
environment.rb file.

Thanks

3

Hello,

I believe folder which holds views for recetas controller must be
named in plural: recetas
…from your post i can see that its in singular: “I have created a
single file named index.html.erb inside
app/views/receta.”

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On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:56 PM, tuti plain [email protected]
wrote:

 format.html #index.html.erb

What gives? Scaffolded models generate .html.erb files and they work
right! So I go ahead and change my view to be named index.erb. I still
get the same error message! What am I missing?

Hi, you’ll need to rename the ‘receta’ folder to ‘recetas’.

Good luck,

-Conrad

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Hi,

Thanks, you were right, renaming the folder solved the problem. I
think I’ll never fully understand the plurals and singulars in Rails.
What I don’t get is why the scaffolded model has its views named like
.html.erb but my manually created one has to be .erb only. I have no
problem in doing it like that, but I’d like to understand why it is.

Thanks again.

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I have created a single file named index.html.erb inside
app/views/receta.
As the message says, it should be app/views/recetas

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On 22 March 2010 11:54, tuti plain [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

Thanks, you were right, renaming the folder solved the problem. I
think I’ll never fully understand the plurals and singulars in Rails.
What I don’t get is why the scaffolded model has its views named like
.html.erb but my manually created one has to be .erb only. I have no
problem in doing it like that, but I’d like to understand why it is.

They do not have to be named .erb only. Rails looks for a range of
names, one of which is .erb, the error message can be confusing.
.html.erb is the recommended way for html generated by erb.

Colin