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Ruby

Posted by Jason Niewoit
Jason Niewoit
752 Points

In the updating the Index Page of the Ruby on rails tutorial edit, and delete not showing.

I followed all of the steps precisely, however I cannot get the application to show the edit, and delete links under the posts. I have made sure my code is for exactly the same, however I can't figure it out.

This is the code i got in the index.html.erb file so far:

<div class="page-header">
<h1>All of the Statuses</h1>
</div>

<% @statuses.each do |status| %>
<div class="status">
  <strong><%= status.name %></strong>
  <p><%= status.content %>
    <div class="meta">
      <%= link_to "Show", status %>
      <span class="all">
        <% link_to "Edit", edit_status_path(status) %> |
         <% link_to "Delete", status, method: :delete, data: { confirm: "Are you sure you want to delete this status?"} %> 
      </span>
    </div>
<% end %>

2 Answers

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Try changing your "Edit" and "Delete" links to say <%= link_to "Edit" ... rather than with the "<%" syntax. By putting an equals sign after the percent sign, that will display the output in an ERB template. The other form only runs the code inside.

Jason Niewoit
Jason Niewoit
752 Points
Jason Niewoit
Jason Niewoit
752 Points

Thanks a lot! I got it to work.