Ruby on Rails

Finne Jager wrote in post #968340:
>> Instead of asking us, look at your rake routes output again! That's why
>> it's there.
>
> Thanks, I just did and realized what I had to change.
>
> With these nested resources in place, do I still have to set @timesheet
> in TimesheetsController#show?

Of course. Changing routes.rb only changes the routing, nothing else.

You may want to use a plugin such as make_resourceful to abstract some
of this.

>
> This is what I had before:
> -------------------------
> def show
> @timesheet = current_user.timesheets.find(params[:id])
> -------------------------

Why the current_user part? Just Timesheet.find(params[:id]) should do
the trick -- after all, the ID is unique.

>
> The reason I'm asking is because in timehsheets/show.html.erb I have:
> -------------------------
> <p>
> <b>Date:</b>
> <%= timesheet.date %>
> </p>
> -------------------------
> which is not working (undefined local variable or method `timesheet'). I
> just want to retrieve the value for 'date' in the database timesheet
> table..

Of course that's not working. You haven't defined timesheet anywhere.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org

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