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Posted by Terence Mylonas
Terence Mylonas
985 Points

Mistakenly Deleted Homepage for Treebook?

Hi folks, Not sure how I did this, but I think I mistakenly deleted my Treebook homepage b/c I just about finished the "Customizing Forms" section and noticed that after I sign out of Treebook via the UI that I end up on the default rails homepage and have to actually go to /statuses to once again see the site.

Two questions:

  1. Can someone tell me where the homepage should be? I thought in Views, but can't tell where (which would make sense if I deleted it!)
  2. And if it's supposed to be there, what's the best way to recreate it without having to start building the app all over again

Note that I may even be asking the wrong questions here (i.e., maybe I didn't delete anything and there's something else I messed up that's pointing me to the generic rails page after "Log out") so if I can provide more info to clarify, please let me know.

Thank you much.

5 Answers

Allan Evans
Allan Evans
9,501 Points
Allan Evans
Allan Evans
9,501 Points

Did you sign up for github? You might be able to do a git pull command in ruby.

Terence Mylonas
Terence Mylonas
985 Points
Terence Mylonas
Terence Mylonas
985 Points

I did, Allan, at the beginning of the authentication section, but if I pull down the latest from github will I end up overwriting the the work I did during authentication and customizing forms?

I'm obviously very new to all of this thus the reason for what might seem like ignorant questions.

Allan Evans
Allan Evans
9,501 Points
Allan Evans
Allan Evans
9,501 Points

No worries man, I'm still learning too. Try git status command and it should show what you have altered and where its located. Besides that you should have 5 files I believe in the statuses folder after views (_form, edit, index, new, show).

Terence Mylonas
Terence Mylonas
985 Points
Terence Mylonas
Terence Mylonas
985 Points

Ok, I have those 5 files in statuses. Then git status gives me this:

modified: Gemfile

modified: Gemfile.lock

modified: app/models/status.rb

modified: app/models/user.rb

modified: app/views/layouts/application.html.erb

modified: app/views/statuses/_form.html.erb

modified: app/views/statuses/index.html.erb

modified: app/views/statuses/show.html.erb

So here's another question (or maybe another way of asking the same question I started this thread w/): When I go to localhost:3000, without /statuses, I should see the standard "homepage," yeah, which pretty much looks exactly like localhost:3000/statuses. Is that right? And what file is that that's actually being served when I do localhost:3000 (again, without /statuses)? That's the file that I'm "missing." And, of course, might not be that it's missing, but rather that I've omitted some code somewhere that points to the proper place b/c when I review those files that were modified, I'm not sure where to look to see if I accidentally deleted or modified something that shouldn't have been touched. Probably a github command that'd show me, of course, but I don't know it.

Thanks, again, for the guidance.

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

What do you see when you go to localhost:3000? The standard Ruby on Rails page? If so, try deleting public/index.html.