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artcardozo
11,170 PointsI need help with this challenge.
I'm a newbie and I'm stuck on this challenge. I'm not understanding exactly what it's asking. Can someone please better explain or provide more clarity.
Loop through our statuses array in an ERB template. Assume we have statuses set up as an array and want to print out the name.
<% @statuses.each do |status| %>
Name: <br />
<% end %>
6 Answers
Dino Paškvan
Courses Plus Student 44,108 PointsWhen dealing with ERB templates, you have two types of tags: <% %> which do something and <%= %> which output something. In this case, you already have the code that does something. It loops through an array of statuses. Those statuses have properties, and one of the properties is a name. To access that property, you'd write status.name.
So, your task is to output the names of the statuses, after Name:.
Does this clarify the situation a bit?
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsSo as you can see the each loop is looping through the statuses and assigning them to a variable called status (the bit between the | | ). So to grab the name is as simple as below.
<% @statuses.each do |status| %>
Name: <br /> <%= status.name %>
<% end %>
You see we ref the status variable and call the name on it
artcardozo
11,170 PointsOh! I see, I got it now and Thank you so very much!!!
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsI would like you to check something to pre-empt a problem I see alot on the forum. Could you run the follwoing command from the command line and post the response here.
rails -v
The reason I ask is if you don't see version 3.2 then you are going to run into problems later on in the course. As things have changed since then, most people will see Rails 4.0.0
artcardozo
11,170 PointsYes! Dino and Hi Dino and Thanks!!!
artcardozo
11,170 PointsI see 4.0.0
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsThen I would suggest you restart the project and ensure you are using rails 3.2. It will cause errors shortly on the course of the use of attr_accessible was taken out of rails 4.
artcardozo
11,170 PointsOkay, thanks!
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsAdam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 PointsA lot more clarity in your answer Dino Paškvan