Problem with SImply Rails2 Chapter 8

[brownmapleleaf]

On page 263 it give the following code

  def create
    @current_user = User.find_by_login_and_password(
      params[:login], params[:password])

    if @current_user
      session[:user_id] = @current_user.id
      redirect_to stories_path
    else
      render :action => 'new'
    end
  end

For some reason when I go to test it out it says "Template is missing
Missing template sessions/create.html.erb in view path /home/jonah/shovell/app/views". The page should be going my main stories page.

Jonah

Yes I have configured routes.rb.

[mfromin]

You don't actually need the create.html.erb since a valid login goes to the stories page and an invalid one goes back to the login page.

1)
I would add some puts statements in there to figure out which part of the if statement you are getting sent to.

2) Run 'rake routes' to make sure you have a route for the stories_path that you reference. When you run that command you should see a full list of valid routes.

In my output from this command I see (among many lines):

stories GET /stories {:controller=>"stories", :action=>"index"}


The first part (stories) is what must preceed the '_path' to be valid.

3) When I change the routes I typically restart Mongrel just to make sure it has the latest routes.