ruby error in book

[innocuous]

Hi,
I am trying to learn RoR from the book 'Build your own Ruby on Rails Web Applications'.

Everything is going fine. However I am stuck on this code

Please view the attached jpg code as this forum is not allowing me to post signs!(code.jpg)

(page 214 of the book)

If the above is present in the story_controller.rb file, then browsers with javascript ENABLED do not update the score or the vote history box.

If I hash out the above entries, everything works fine. Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Mittineague]

HI innocuous, welcome to the forums,

I have the book "Simply Rails 2" but not "Build your own" except for the sample chapters which don't go up to page 214. At the risk of confusing things, SR2 has

Ensuring Graceful Degradation
To implement a fallback action for browsers that don’t support Ajax, we actually just need to take care of the different treatment for browsers with and without Javascript support on the behalf of the create action of VotesController, since the HTML generated by the form_remote_tag helper we’ve used to generate our voting form is already fully compatible with both worlds.
Our plan is to redirect users back to the story page after we’ve processed their votes with their non-Javascript browsers while users with Ajax-enabled browsers can watch as the total number of votes is updated and highlighted without a page reload. To instruct our votes controller to take appropriate action, whether it’s dealing with
an Ajax request or a regular HTTP POSTrequest, we need to modify the createaction in our VotesController class like so:

14-votes_controller.rb (excerpt)

class VotesController < ActionController::Base
  def create
    @story = Story.find(params[:story_id])
    @story.votes.create
 
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { redirect_to @story }
      format.js
    end
  end

Which looks somewhat similar to your

  def Vote
    @story = Story.find(params[:id])
    @story.votes.create
 
    respond_to do |wants|
    wants.html { redirect_to :action => 'show'
                                      :permalink => @story.permalink }
    wants.js     { render }
  end
end

Sorry but I don't really know what the problem is for you, I'm hoping the above might help anyway.

My thinking is that maybe you are working through an older book but not with the same app versions that were in use when the book was written?

I didn't see anything listed in the "errata" http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails1/errata.php
But you could compare your files to those in the code archive http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails1/code.php

[innocuous]

Seems the same...I'll try it out and see. I guess I need to buy the updated book! The 1st edition tells me to modify the story_controller and here its telling me to modify the vote_controller!

Thanks