I have created the application.html.erb and style.css files as oulines on pages 168 - 171. Unfortunately.... these do not have any impact on what is displayed in the browser. Any help would be appreciated.
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I have created the application.html.erb and style.css files as oulines on pages 168 - 171. Unfortunately.... these do not have any impact on what is displayed in the browser. Any help would be appreciated.
I can't comment on how it is done in the book, but this is the general way it works:
Layouts
Live in app/view/layouts. By default, a views generated by a controller will automatically use a layout with the same name* as the controller if such a layout exists. So views used by a controller StoreController will automatically use a layout called store.rhtml or store.html.erb if the file exists.
You can over-ride this behaviour by manually specifying the layout to use by adding something like this to your controller:
Which would point the controller at a layout file another_layout.rhtml or another_layout.html.erbCode:layout "another_layout"
Style sheet
Style sheets are stored in public/stylesheets
The style sheet used is usually defined within the layout with the method stylesheet_link_tag. By convention you'd use the controller name again. So in the Store example above you'd add this to the <head> section of your layout:
And this would create a link pointing at public/stylesheets/store.css.Code:<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'store' %>
*Using the convention that a contoller 'named' Store has a class name of StoreController and file name store_controller.rb.
I'm working through the book now. In
....shovell\app\views\layouts\application.html.erb
As ReggieB said, the "stylesheet_link_tag 'style'" should fetch the style.css file from the ....shovell\public\stylesheets folder.Code Ruby:<title>Shovell</title> <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'style' %> </head>
I'm wondering if you accidentally ran the "scaffold" line (page 146) and that's what you're seeing?
Thanks for the help .... I figured it out.
nice information dude.
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