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Alex Park
2,812 PointsFollowed every line of code. Still breaks. Wtf Treehouse
I've literally followed along with every line of code on this 'Building a Simple RoR Application' track but my app keeps breaking and/or does not look or interact the same way the example app does. Tried starting from the scratch again a second time and the same result. Friend had the same experience and forums show we're not the only ones. Wtf Treehouse..
I don't even know if I care for help anymore.. So frustrated.
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Lisa Rossiter
3,630 PointsI think they should really focus not on new content for ruby but testing their own stuff first in the latest versions and adding notes instead of annoying valuable users. I can help and have successfully managed to get through that course but it wasn't easy, especially for what they suppose to be a beginner.
Nathan F.
30,773 PointsHey Alex, sorry to see you're having trouble. Can you tell us what version of Rails/Bootstrap you're using? The Treebook course is somewhat dated, and will lead to some unique headaches if you're using Rails 4/Ruby2.0.x.
I've been running through the Treebook course myself, but using Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9. I've still bumped into errors here and there, but some are intentional (Jason and Jim introduce bugs into code that they fix in the following videos).
If you give us a little more detail into what troubles you're having, someone should be able to help.