How to use templates in ruby

hi all,

I have created links ie:-

/articles
/news

and i looked on a site and it said creating a .rhtml file in the
app/views/articles news etc but when i created news.rhtml and
articles.rhtml and put it in the folder in the app/views and its still
reading the

class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
def index
render :text => “This is the articles page”
end

end

in the controller and not the .rhtml file

how is this done

many thanks

paul

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Peter V.
[email protected] wrote:

If I understand correctly, the fact that you call render explicitely
in the controller, will avoid the “automatic” render of the template in
app/views/articles/index.html.erb

Forgot to explain this. Only if you did not explicitly call ‘render’
or ‘redirect_to’
Rails will automatically call the render function on the corresponding
location
in the …/app/views/ directory.

Peter

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Paul Na
[email protected] wrote:

articles.rhtml and put it in the folder in the app/views and its still

how is this done

If I understand correctly, the fact that you call render explicitely
in the controller,
will avoid the “automatic” render of the template in
app/views/articles/index.html.erb

So, I suggest yoiu change as follows:

Controller: …/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb

class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
def index
@test_article = “This is a test article”
end
end

Views: …/app/views/articles/index.html.erb

test of an article <%=h @test_article %>

Then go to

htpp://localhost:3000/articles/

HTH,

Peter

many thanks

paul

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Peter V. wrote:

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Peter V.
[email protected] wrote:

If I understand correctly, the fact that you call render explicitely
in the controller, will avoid the “automatic” render of the template in
app/views/articles/index.html.erb

Forgot to explain this. Only if you did not explicitly call ‘render’
or ‘redirect_to’
Rails will automatically call the render function on the corresponding
location
in the …/app/views/ directory.

Peter

Hi peter

Thanks its working , Im just trying to get my head around it all.

Thanks again

Paul

Paul Na wrote:

Thanks its working , Im just trying to get my head around it all.

By the way in case you didn’t notice, all the cool kids are using the
“html.erb” extension instead of “rhtml” extension for view templates
that render HTML using embedded Ruby (ERB).

I’ll leave it as a task for you to discover why html.erb is so cool.

Robert W. wrote:

Paul Na wrote:

Thanks its working , Im just trying to get my head around it all.

By the way in case you didn’t notice, all the cool kids are using the
“html.erb” extension instead of “rhtml” extension for view templates
that render HTML using embedded Ruby (ERB).

I’ll leave it as a task for you to discover why html.erb is so cool.

Hi robert

yeh i did come across soething to do with it when trying to load the
news page up and it come back with a error , which i had the news page
as index.rhtml.erb i changed it to index.html.erb then it worked