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Ruby ActiveRecord Basics Migrations and Relationships Has and Belongs to Many

Posted by Michael Immordino
Michael Immordino
Courses Plus Student 6,749 Points

Rails views displaying SQL result array

I'm in the process of creating the views for the index and the show pages. I believe the code is exactly as displayed in the video but I may have missed something. When I view the pages, the server appears to be inserting the SQL result array and I cannot figure out why.

For instance, my index page displays:

[#<Customer id: 1, type: "Customer", name: "Bob's Emporium", email: nil, about: nil, created_at: "2015-07-24 15:34:39", updated_at: "2015-07-24 15:37:32">, #<Employee id: 2, type: "Employee", name: "Hampton", email: "hcatlin@gmail.com", about: nil, created_at: "2015-07-24 15:34:39", updated_at: "2015-07-24 15:38:18">]
Bob's Emporium  Customer
Hampton     Employee

the result array is above the table element so I have no idea why it is being inserted there.

My controller code:

class AccountsController < ApplicationController
     def index
          @accounts = Account.all
     end

     def show
          @account = Account.find(params[:id])
     end
end

My index view code:

<table>
     <%= @accounts.each do | account | %>
     <tr>
          <td><%= link_to account.name, account_path(account) %></td>
          <td><%= account.type.to_s %></td>
     </tr>
     <% end %>
</table>

1 Answer

Charles Lee
Charles Lee
17,825 Points

I want to give you the satisfaction of solving this one.

Edit: I've had to edit this like three times because apparently treehouse doesn't escape their text inputs. 

<table>
    # There is a difference between `<%=` and `<%`.

     <%= @accounts.each do | account | %>
     <tr>
          <td><%= link_to account.name, account_path(account) %></td>
          <td><%= account.type.to_s %></td>
     </tr>
     <% end %>
</table>
Michael Immordino
Michael Immordino
Courses Plus Student 6,749 Points

I swear it's always 1 character! Thanks for catching that.