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diff --git a/guides/source/getting_started.md b/guides/source/getting_started.md index 264c94326e..e486c53fe3 100644 --- a/guides/source/getting_started.md +++ b/guides/source/getting_started.md @@ -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 @@ -1212,7 +1209,7 @@ view above, will cause form helpers to fill in form fields with the correspondin values of the object. Passing in a symbol scope such as `scope: :article`, as was done in the new view, only creates empty form fields. More details can be found in [form_with documentation] -(http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_with). +(https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_with). Next, we need to create the `update` action in `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb`. @@ -1348,7 +1345,7 @@ to stand in for either of the other forms is that `@article` is a *resource* corresponding to a full set of RESTful routes, and Rails is able to infer which URI and method to use. For more information about this use of `form_with`, see [Resource-oriented style] -(http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_with-label-Resource-oriented+style). +(https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_with-label-Resource-oriented+style). Now, let's update the `app/views/articles/new.html.erb` view to use this new partial, rewriting it completely: @@ -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 @@ -1655,7 +1652,7 @@ controller. Again, we'll use the same generator we used before: $ rails generate controller Comments ``` -This creates five files and one empty directory: +This creates four files and one empty directory: | File/Directory | Purpose | | -------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | |