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Ruby

Posted by Zia Khan
Zia Khan
Courses Plus Student 9,868 Points

Made and ran test.rb exactly per instructions, however the console doesn't return anything.

I've set up the file exactly as described in the video (within folder "pages") called it in test.rb as shown in the video too. However, when I call the file in console I get an empty space (in console). I'm using cloud9 for my test environment (loading all the necessary gems for sinatra) and up to this point all the code's worked fine.

for reference my file tree is:

wiki
-pages
--nick pettit.txt
-views
test.rb
wiki.rb

on commenting out the rescue clause; I get "no such file or directory pages/nick pettit.txt -- However, the folder is there and the file's in said folder clear as day.

help...?

1 Answer

Zia Khan
Zia Khan
Courses Plus Student 9,868 Points

Ok, I feel I've solved this issue. when it comes to file.read after much googling outside of treehouse of course:

Unlike the server running workspaces in treehouse , c9.io prefers one give the entire file path leading to .txt file. So in my case:

def page_content(title)
  File.read("wiki/pages/#{title}.txt")
rescue Errno::ENOENT
  return nil
end

Unlike in the video instructions:

def page_content(title)
  File.read("pages/#{title}.txt")
rescue Errno::ENOENT
  return nil
end

Maybe this'll help others working in dev environs outside workspaces provided.