Question

This is my Error:

Routing Error

uninitialized constant OverviewController

Im new to rails I have NO idea what this means. I am trying to create a view based on the end of the URL being “overview”, someone showed me I thought everything with an example “admin” and that works like a charm.

I have rails 1.9 installed (if that makes a difference).

I have my controller “overview_controller.rb” in the controllers directory. The source of it being.

class OverviewController < OverviewController
    def index
      respond_to do |format|
        format.html
      end
    end
end

I have in my views directory overview/index.html.erb its source even simpler. “Overview Place Holder” thats it.

in my routes.rb I have
match “overview” => “overview#index”

this from my understanding is the same exact way the “admin” example I was given works. So why is it this isn’t working for me with the “overview”

Answer 1

You’re trying to subclass the class by it’s self, change the first line of your controller to this…

class OverviewController < ApplicationController