Controller/View Instance Variable Access

**dan06** · Aug 4, 2009 11:17

I'm learning ruby (on rails) and I put together this simple controller & view, which I can't figure out why is not working:

Code:

class NewsController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @currentTime = Time.now
  end
end

*Note: if I change @currentTime to Time.now the current time is displayed.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>News</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>News</h1>
<p>The current time is:<%= @currentTime %></p>
</body>
</html>

Help is appreciated.

**docetes** · Aug 4, 2009 13:20

what did you name the view file?

**kyberfabrikken** · Aug 4, 2009 14:31

Not that I think it's related to your particular problem, but the naming convensions in ruby is @current_time

**dan06** · Aug 4, 2009 14:47

Originally Posted by docetes

what did you name the view file?

I just started ruby/rails, and the problem ended up being something simple. The 'action' name did not match the view file name, resulting in the error.

**docetes** · Aug 5, 2009 02:19

Originally Posted by dan06

I just started ruby/rails, and the problem ended up being something simple. The 'action' name did not match the view file name, resulting in the error.

that's what I thought, those little things can be really annoying. Glad to hear you figured it out

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