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Ruby Building Web Apps with Sinatra ERB Templates Embedding Instance Variables

Posted by Hannah Trewern
Hannah Trewern
13,429 Points

render the views/hello Not sure what I am doing wrong

??

hello.rb 
require "sinatra"

get "/greet/:name" do
  @name = params[:name]
  erb = :hello
end
views/hello.erb 
<p>Hello <%= @name %></p>

1 Answer

Angela Visnesky
Angela Visnesky
20,927 Points

HI Hannah! You don't need the equal sign to call the erb. It should be erb :hello. Hope this helps!