simply rails 2-Defining Relationships Between Objects

[4877]

I wanted to do the exercise on page 105, and so I tried every possible way of doing what he said but it kept saying syntax is wrong. I tried the shovell
prompt and the apps prompt... and I pasted one line, two lines and three lines of the provided commands and all came back wrong syntax, what am I doing wrong?

[phillipus_rex]

Is your prompt in the root directory of the application? What does it say immediately before the ">" sign when you are typing in your code?

[4877]

that is my question, at which prompt do I type and what do I type?

[Mittineague]

My page numbers seem a few off, so I'm guessing you mean

>> class Story < ActiveRecord::Base; end 
=> nil 
>> story = Story.new 
=> #<Story id: nil, name: nil, url: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> 
>> story.class 
=> Story(id: integer, name: string, link: string, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime)

A page or so back it says

To enter a Rails console, change to your shovell folder, and enter the command ruby script/console, as shown below. The >>prompt is ready to accept your commands:

Is that it?

[daveporter]

@4877

1) What platform are you on ?
2) What philipus is asking is what does your prompt look like - you should be in the shovell folder - something like this c:\MyRailsApps\shovell
3) You might also want to check your pathing - is rails installed correctly ?

HTH Dave

[4877]

winsows vista,. I tried it with the shovell prompt but it said invalad syntax, page 105... how much should I be entering, I tried all different ways