What if you've added a view and it's not being found.

When we visit the Edit form for a pet and update a pet to have a blank name

we should be redirected back to the form to fix the name but

instead we get a Template is missing error.

If we look in the app/views/pets directory.

We'll see an edit.html.erb.

So what's the problem?

Well let's look at the error in the browser again.

It says Missing template pets/edits.

Note the s on the end.

There's just one method in the stack trace,

the update method on pets_controller line 38.

So let's open app/controllers/pets_controller and

go to line 38.

And there we see the code render :edits where the view name, edits, is plural.

Let's look at the components of the error message to determine what template

filename Rails is looking for.

We can see that it's looking in the app/views folder.

And because our call to render is in the pets controller

it's looking in the pets sub folder.

But because we're calling render edits, plural, it's looking for

a template named edits.html.erb.

Our actual template file is named edit.html.erb.

So let's change our controller code from render :edits to render :edit,

save, and reload the page.

If we're asked to confirm the form resubmission, we can.

We should get redirected back to the Edit page to fix the pet name and

the template loads.

If we go look at the rails log, we see that it rendered pets/edit.html.erb

instead of pets/edits.html.erb, the plural.

Fixing our code allowed it to load the views template file.

Now, you have some general tips on how to troubleshoot problems with your views.

Next, we'll look at how to fix issues you can encounter while loading

model data from your database.