Ruby on Rails / Heroku - The page you were looking for doesn't exist

Question

I realise this is a very common question but I am currently teaching myself ruby on rails and after going through the gargantuan task of getting an app set up on Heroku I've encountered my first problem.

I thought something was broken since when I click the About your application's environment link I get the page not found error but read that's ok as that should only work in the dev environment.

So, I went ahead and created a controller and a view with the following command:

rails generate controller Index

In my app > controllers folder I have a file called index_controller.rb which contains the following:

class IndexController < ApplicationController
  def index
  end
end

and in my app > views > index folder I have a file named index.html.erb

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Test Site</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Test</h1>
    </body>
</html>

But when I visit http://safe-peak-2383.herokuapp.com/index/index/ I get the page not found error.

Since I'm using Heroku my gem file contains this:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'sqlite3'
end
group :production do
  gem 'pg'
end

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you visit http://safe-peak-2383.herokuapp.com you will see the getting started page. I seems like you have not set the root route for your app.

first,

git rm public/index.html

This will get rid of the getting started page when you visit the root path of your app

next, in config/routes.rb

root to: 'index#index'

This will make http://safe-peak-2383.herokuapp.com show the index of your index controller.

Remember to push all these changes to github then heroku for them to take effect

Ruby on Rails / Heroku - The page you were looking for doesn't exist

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solution1
1 ACCPTED 2013-05-22 20:28:36

Ruby on Rails / Heroku - The page you were looking for doesn't exist

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1 answers

solution1 1 ACCPTED 2013-05-22 20:28:36

solution1
1 ACCPTED 2013-05-22 20:28:36