Rails - Jan 2005 - error in Index action while following Todo tutorial

First my setup: Mac OS-X Panther, Ruby 1.8 installed and sym linked to 
the location where Ruby 1.6 was originally located.(likely source of 
problem, but...)

While following along with the Todo tutorial I completed the empty index 
action with the correct result, but when I attempted to add the 
render_text method as shown I get the following error message in the 
browser page:

  SyntaxError in Todo#index

/app/controllers/todo_controller.rb:8: parse error

/projects/Todo/script/server:49

I have double checked my typing and made sure that I used two spaces for 
indenting(does that matter in this context?) and tried using a space and 
no space between the method name and argument. I also tried using only 
double-quotes without parantheses the way the OnLamp tutorial did, but 
still get the same error page. Of course I have zero experience in 
debugging Ruby or rails so there may be an obvious answer here but I 
don''t know it. I have prepared my "doh!" response pending
your feedback.




-- 
Best Regards,


Jody Leavell

Jody,

Can you please post your code, that would help. 

-Brandon

On 11:41 Fri 28 Jan     , Jody Leavell wrote:
> First my setup: Mac OS-X Panther, Ruby 1.8 installed and sym linked to 
> the location where Ruby 1.6 was originally located.(likely source of 
> problem, but...)
> 
> While following along with the Todo tutorial I completed the empty index 
> action with the correct result, but when I attempted to add the 
> render_text method as shown I get the following error message in the 
> browser page:
> 
>  SyntaxError in Todo#index
> 
> /app/controllers/todo_controller.rb:8: parse error
> 
> /projects/Todo/script/server:49
> 
> I have double checked my typing and made sure that I used two spaces for 
> indenting(does that matter in this context?) and tried using a space and 
> no space between the method name and argument. I also tried using only 
> double-quotes without parantheses the way the OnLamp tutorial did, but 
> still get the same error page. Of course I have zero experience in 
> debugging Ruby or rails so there may be an obvious answer here but I 
> don''t know it. I have prepared my "doh!" response
pending your feedback.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> Jody Leavell
> _______________________________________________
> Rails mailing list
> Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
-- 
Brandon Philips
brandon-CJG/fkoVOTIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
"Open minds. Open doors. Open source." - osuosl.org


_______________________________________________
Rails mailing list
Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:41:41 -0600, Jody Leavell
<jody.leavell-GISIphQPqQyKDjD76uxLDg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> First my setup: Mac OS-X Panther, Ruby 1.8 installed and sym linked to
> the location where Ruby 1.6 was originally located.(likely source of
> problem, but...)
> 
> While following along with the Todo tutorial I completed the empty index
> action with the correct result, but when I attempted to add the
> render_text method as shown I get the following error message in the
> browser page:
> 
>   SyntaxError in Todo#index
> 
> /app/controllers/todo_controller.rb:8: parse error
So uh, what is line 8 of todo_controller.rb ?

Joe