Rails Views Lab

Objectives

1. Respond to HTTP Requests with Rails Routes and Controller Actions.
2. Render ERB from a Rails Controller Action.

Overview

This lesson practices creating ERB views and rendering them from a Rails Controller Action in response to an HTTP request. Fork and clone this repository and run bundle install to get started!

Instructions

The Rails application is already set up with the necessary routes and controller actions. The view templates exist in the app/views/application directory but need to be completed with the requested content.

Run rails server to start a local server so that you can test your app in your browser. Once your application is running, assuming port 3000, the Rails default, you should be able to hit the following local urls: http://localhost:3000/hello, http://localhost:3000/goodbye, http://localhost:3000/date, and http://localhost:3000/ (root).

You can run bundle exec rspec to get the tests passing and see errors.

The following routes are already configured in config/routes.rb:

• GET /hello → ApplicationController#hello
• GET /goodbye → ApplicationController#goodbye
• GET /date → ApplicationController#date
• GET / (root) → ApplicationController#index

Complete the following view templates:

1. Complete the template hello.html.erb in app/views/application so that it contains an h1 tag with the content Hello World. This template is already configured to be rendered via the GET /hello route by your ApplicationController in app/controllers/application_controller.rb.

2. Complete the template goodbye.html.erb in app/views/application. In this view, use ERB tags to create a variable name. This variable should store the name Joe. Then, using ERB tags, say "Goodbye Joe" in an h1 tag. This template is already configured to be rendered via the GET /goodbye route by your ApplicationController.

3. Complete the template date.html.erb in app/views/application that gets rendered via GET /date. It should contain an h1 with the content Today

Using ERB tags, and the DateTime library, display today's date in a p tag. The date should be formatted to look something like this The date is Wednesday, November 18, 2015.