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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Viewing Todo Items: Part 2

John Salzarulo
John Salzarulo
6,596 Points
Posted by John Salzarulo
John Salzarulo
6,596 Points

My whole database showing below my <UL>?

What is going on?

Made it this far everything is working. However, when I view items it shows me a strange database like listing of all the items.

Here is an example:

* Pencils
* Paper
* Books
* Homework

[#<TodoItem id: 23, todo_list_id: 17, content: "Pencils", created_at: "2014-09-26 03:30:49", updated_at: "2014-09-26 03:30:49">, #<TodoItem id: 24, todo_list_id: 17, content: "Paper", created_at: "2014-09-26 03:30:52", updated_at: "2014-09-26 03:30:52">, #<TodoItem id: 25, todo_list_id: 17, content: "Books", created_at: "2014-09-26 03:30:56", updated_at: "2014-09-26 03:30:56">, #<TodoItem id: 26, todo_list_id: 17, content: "Homework", created_at: "2014-09-26 03:31:10", updated_at: "2014-09-26 03:31:10">]

To be clear, this is what shows on my localhost in my browser whrn visiting the "List Items" link from the index. Everytime I add new items they populate in this strange soup below.

Here is my view code for this index: 

<h1> <%= @todo_list.title %> </h1>
<ul class="todo_items">
    <%= @todo_list.todo_items.each do |todo_item| %>
    <li><%= todo_item.content %></li>
    <% end %>
</ul>

<p>
    <%= link_to "New Todo Item", new_todo_list_todo_item_path %>
</p>

There is nothing in this index view that would push this through! So annoyed.

What I have done:

  • Double checked my views (Code above)

Here is my github repository

What do you guys think? Please help. I've been trying to fix this for hours.

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

This line:

<%= @todo_list.todo_items.each do |todo_item| %>

You have to remove the = and it will work. The = symbol prints things on the screen, so you remove it in parts that you only want evaluated and not printed.