#debuggin

marigold: what’s your favorite tea?

Tazo makes a tea called zen and it’s lemongrass and peppermint and green tea that’s my favorite in the morning or iced on a hot day. Other than that peppermint and green tea are my go to :)

Thanks for the ask! Xx

Today we were given an assignment to debug a Rails app. The problem with the app is that when you go to the new action and hit submit button, it seems like it creates a game but it's saving blank names for the games name.

The first thing I did was forked the app from my instructor GitHub and opened up my terminal to cloned the repo. I did a bundle install ran the rails server. After running the server, I opened up the browser and checked http://localhost:3000/games. I received this error:

This error is basically stating that it cannot find the 'games' table. So I ran the single migration created. After refreshing the page, the error went away and I was able to create new actions and this is where I ran into the error the instructor wanted us to debug.

As you can see, no value is being shown for the new games. I had this similar error before on a tutorial i was following to create a simple blog app on Rails. The problem was that the game create method didn't have the correct parameters. In the game controller I went to the create method and changed the params[:games] to plural so it should read params[:game]. While i was already at the controller page, I noticed that there was no destroy method, so I went ahead and created it. I went back to my browser, refreshed the page, deleted the two blank values and created a new game to check if I debugged the bug correctly and it worked!