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Christopher Kemp
3,446 Pointsget "/greet/:name"
I'm really not sure where I'm going wrong here. I went back to the lecture and I thought I followed the same process as Jay, but it just keeps saying Bummer: Try again!
Which it's not helpful in these projects to be unable to look at where the code crashes.
require "sinatra"
get "/greet/:name" do
"hello"
page_content(params[:name])
end
1 Answer
Jay McGavren
Treehouse TeacherYou are right that "Try again" is not the most helpful error message. Unfortunately when the code doesn't run successfully, that's all that gets produced.
The issue is that you're calling a page_content method that doesn't exist. page_content is available in the wiki app only because we define it there - it's not part of Sinatra. This challenge example is a completely separate app, and so any attempt to call page_content will fail (unless you define a method named page_content yourself).
But that's not what you want to do anyway. You just need the content of the :name URL parameter, which is available as part of the params hash:
require "sinatra"
get "/greet/:name" do
"hello #{params[:name]}"
end
Christopher Kemp
3,446 PointsChristopher Kemp
3,446 PointsThank you! I eventually was able to find an answer that worked through the internet, but I wasn't really sure why it worked. This was extremely helpful for my understanding! I have really enjoyed this course because of how much it challenges my understanding of Ruby. I have taken courses before that really all you do is follow along with someone that is writing code, but you never learn what it means or does to the core. So far you guys have delivered on getting me to understand what each snipit of code is used for, how it works, and the course has really helped me to solidify my understanding of Ruby!