Rails template not loading up

[ChestRockwell]

Hello,
I literally just started learing Ruby on Rails today so I am very new. To help I picked up the Agile Web Development book too and I have hit a little snag about 30 pages into it.

I installed Ruby and Rails just like the book said. I then stopped apache2 (which is my default server)

I created a new rails directory like so...

    $> rails demo

I then started the web server like so...

   demo> script/server

I tested it and it worked.

I created a controller called Say

     demo> script/generate controller Say

that too worked.

I then went inside the controller and defined a method called hello()

  class SayController < ApplicationController
    def hello
    end
  end

I then created an rhtml template that did nothing but print the words hello rails. I put that in the views directory. Now, at this point I should get my html page to pop up, but instead I get a blank page. Nothing. Looking at the source code and there is nothing there. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Also, I stopped apache2 because I figured there may be some conflict having 2 webservers running at the same time. Should I stop it or is it OK to run apache and WEBrick at the same time?

Thanks in advance.

[pjleonhardt]

can we see your view file?

[Fenrir2]

The rhtml file should be in views/say/hello.rhtml because it's in the say controller.

[ChestRockwell]

Thanks for the relplies guys,
I actually figured out the problem. Everything was in the correct place, it was a problem with my install. I am running Ubuntu and it looks like gems didn't actually install all the packages that I needed. I ended up doing this:

> sudo apt-get install rails irb ri1.8 ruby1.8-dev

and that got me all the stuff that was missing from the install. Not sure why the install didn't go correctly, but it is fine now.