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diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index e2f558d74c..7ee0d8c916 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ $ ruby -v ruby 2.5.0 ``` -Rails requires Ruby version 2.4.1 or later. If the version number returned is +Rails requires Ruby version 2.5.0 or later. If the version number returned is less than that number, you'll need to install a fresh copy of Ruby. TIP: To quickly install Ruby and Ruby on Rails on your system in Windows, you can use @@ -461,22 +461,19 @@ available, Rails will raise an exception. Let's look at the full error message again: ->ArticlesController#new is missing a template for this request format and variant. request.formats: ["text/html"] request.variant: [] NOTE! For XHR/Ajax or API requests, this action would normally respond with 204 No Content: an empty white screen. Since you're loading it in a web browser, we assume that you expected to actually render a template, not… nothing, so we're showing an error to be extra-clear. If you expect 204 No Content, carry on. That's what you'll get from an XHR or API request. Give it a shot. +>ArticlesController#new is missing a template for request formats: text/html -That's quite a lot of text! Let's quickly go through and understand what each -part of it means. +>NOTE! +>Unless told otherwise, Rails expects an action to render a template with the same name, contained in a folder named after its controller. If this controller is an API responding with 204 (No Content), which does not require a template, then this error will occur when trying to access it via browser, since we expect an HTML template to be rendered for such requests. If that's the case, carry on. -The first part identifies which template is missing. In this case, it's the +The message identifies which template is missing. In this case, it's the `articles/new` template. Rails will first look for this template. If not found, -then it will attempt to load a template called `application/new`. It looks for -one here because the `ArticlesController` inherits from `ApplicationController`. +then it will attempt to load a template called `application/new`, because the +`ArticlesController` inherits from `ApplicationController`. -The next part of the message contains `request.formats` which specifies -the format of template to be served in response. It is set to `text/html` as we -requested this page via browser, so Rails is looking for an HTML template. -`request.variant` specifies what kind of physical devices would be served by -the response and helps Rails determine which template to use in the response. -It is empty because no information has been provided. +Next the message contains `request.formats` which specifies the format of +template to be served in response. It is set to `text/html` as we requested +this page via browser, so Rails is looking for an HTML template. The simplest template that would work in this case would be one located at `app/views/articles/new.html.erb`. The extension of this file name is important: @@ -686,7 +683,7 @@ If you look in the `db/migrate/YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_create_articles.rb` file (remember, yours will have a slightly different name), here's what you'll find: ```ruby -class CreateArticles < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] +class CreateArticles < ActiveRecord::Migration[6.0] def change create_table :articles do |t| t.string :title @@ -1558,7 +1555,7 @@ In addition to the model, Rails has also made a migration to create the corresponding database table: ```ruby -class CreateComments < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] +class CreateComments < ActiveRecord::Migration[6.0] def change create_table :comments do |t| t.string :commenter |