On 7 December 2010 09:57, Nandakumar Chandrasekhar <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I am Web developer and have experience mainly with the Django Web > framework for Python and wish to learn ROR. > > I am currently using Rails 3.0.3 and was getting a routing error > whenever I added a view to a controller until I found out I had to add > the path to the routes.rb file under the config directory. > > Is this new in Rails 3? I am asking this because I was following the > example in "Agile Web Development with Rails 3rd Edition" which uses > Rails 2 and getting the routing error.
You are liable to run into a lot of problems if the version of rails you are using is not close to that of your tutorial. You could have a look at railstutorial.org with has a good rails 3 tutorial. It is free to work through online, or pay for the book I think. Also work through the Rails Guides, starting with Getting Started of course. > > I also find that if use the "rails generate" command the routes.rb file > is automatically updated. Does this mean that the proper way to create > views and controllers is to use the above command. For beginners at least probably yes. > > If so how do I create a view function in an existing controller without > having it being overwritten or is the manual way the only way to do > this? You can only use the generators the first time, then it is up to you. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
