Continuing with my Rails Library Management App, I learnt about scaffolds and thought that it would give me ample framework to re-work upon. The thing is, that although scaffolds are being generated and everything, they aren't working properly. Rather, they aren't working at all.
When I access to http://localhost/[controller-name], It shoots up a webpage that says Listing [controller-name] all fine. But when i click on new button or navigate to http://localhost/[controller-name]/new, the server crashes without an error.
P.S.
While trying things, I noticed that although,
$ rails generate scaffold person name:string identity:integer DOB:date
works just fine,
$ rails generate scaffold student name:string id_number:integer class:integer section:string issued:date returned:date fine:integer reissued:date
doesn't?
P.P.S.
The real problem is, accessing the action "student#new" does not only NOT work, but also crashes my server (yeah no exiting WEBrick). All I can provide are the messages that appear at the end:
Started GET "/assets/students.css?body=1" for 127.0.0.1 at 2015-08-05 12:20:19 +0530
Started GET "/assets/scaffolds.css?body=1" for 127.0.0.1 at 2015-08-05 12:20:19 +0530
Started GET "/assets/application.css?body=1" for 127.0.0.1 at 2015-08-05 12:20:19 +0530
Started GET "/students/new" for 127.0.0.1 at 2015-08-05 12:20:21 +0530
Processing by StudentsController#new as HTML
class is a keyword in Ruby, so using that as a column name isn't a great idea. On this line:
$ rails generate scaffold student name:string id_number:integer class:integer section:string issued:date returned:date fine:integer reissued:date
change class:integer to kind:integer and it should work.