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Ruby Practice Sinatra Basics Practice ERB Templates ERB Templates

James Nobles
James Nobles
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Sinatra Routes

I'm sure I've just stared at this too long and missing something super simple. I keep getting an error that my app did not respond.

app.rb
require "sinatra"

get "/:word" do
  @word = params[:word]
  erb :word
end
views/word.erb
<h1><%= @word %></h1>
<p>Backwards: <%= @word.reverse %></p>
<p>Uppercase: <%= @word.upper %></p>
<p>Length: <%= @word.length %></p>

1 Answer

In the instructions:

A <p> element with the text "Uppercase:", followed by the result of calling the upcase method on the word string

You have used upper