Question

I am following a tutorial for building a very simple rails app. I have created a simple controller that looks like this

class AnimalsController < ApplicationController
end

and I have a folder inside of views called animals with a rhtml file called hello.rhtml containing some basic text. Now when I start the server and go visit

http://localhost:3000/animals/hello

I get a Routing Error. I am not sure what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

Unlike some frameworks, the routes are not automatically created from the methods that exist in the controller, you need the following in config/routes.rb

get "animals/hello" => "animals#hello"

You can read about routing here.

You can find out the routes for your current project by typing rake routes in your terminal.

class AnimalsController < ApplicationController 
  def hello
  end
end