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Teo Inke
4,403 PointsRuby scaffolding - duplicated message: "Status was successfully created"
Hello!
I've been following the Ruby tutorial to create a Rails application. However, I got stuck in this problem: using scaffold model, my confirmation message for a new status appears duplicated and actually in an inconvenient place. I have searched for this on the files and I found the message in apps/controllers/statuses_controller.rb. What is weird: I changed the text, and it altered both messages. Has anyone had the same problem before?
5 Answers
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsok looks like this is the issue (not 100% sure though)
<div class="container">
<p class="notice"><%= notice %></p>
<p class="alert"><%= alert %></p>
<%= yield %>
</div>
you have a notice being displayed in the application layout file AND in the status show view. so you have two being shown. if you remove the one in the application layout you should only see one. (but thats only a temporary fix really since I assume it was in the application layout for a reason. so you probably dont want it gone)
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointscan you post the code for your status show view?
Teo Inke
4,403 PointsThis is the code in show.html.erb:
<p id="notice"><%= notice %></p>
<p>
<strong>Name:</strong>
<%= @status.name %>
</p>
<p>
<strong>Content:</strong>
<%= @status.content %>
</p>
<%= link_to 'Edit', edit_status_path(@status) %> |
<%= link_to 'Back', statuses_path %>
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsok now post the code in your application layout file. you might have a flash message being displayed in the application layout file in addition to this one, thus you are seeing 2 messages.
Teo Inke
4,403 PointsThis is layouts/application.html.erb:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Treebook</title>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", media: "all", "data-turbolinks-track" => true %>
<%= javascript_include_tag "application", "data-turbolinks-track" => true %>
<%= csrf_meta_tags %>
</head>
<body>
<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
<div class="navbar-inner">
<div class="container">
<a href="#" class="navbar-brand"> Treebook</a>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li><%= link_to "All Statuses", statuses_path %></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<p class="notice"><%= notice %></p>
<p class="alert"><%= alert %></p>
<%= yield %>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This is the concerning chunk of code in controllers/statuses_controller.erb:
def create
@status = Status.new(status_params)
respond_to do |format|
if @status.save
format.html { redirect_to @status, notice: 'Confirmation message edited' }
format.json { render action: 'show', status: :created, location: @status }
else
format.html { render action: 'new' }
format.json { render json: @status.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
Teo Inke
4,403 PointsThank you, this was indeed the issue! It's been a while since I coded it, so apparently everything is still fine :)
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsalright cool glad it was that simple