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Ruby Practice Sinatra Basics HTML Forms HTML Forms

Posted by PRAKASH ANAND
PRAKASH ANAND
Courses Plus Student 5,060 Points

We tried a POST request to the /reverse path, but we got a bad response.

We tried a POST request to the /reverse path, but we got a bad response.

app.rb 
require "sinatra"
get "/input" do

  erb :input
end
post "/reverse" do
  reverse()


end
views/input.erb 
<form method="post" action="/reverse">
  <input type="text" name="string">
  <input type="submit">


</form>

1 Answer

Thomas Wright
Thomas Wright
4,532 Points
Thomas Wright
Thomas Wright
4,532 Points

You'll need to do a little more work here to send the form's data to the POST request. In this case, you'll need to use something like params["string"].reverse. In Sinatra, Params returns a hash. By giving your text input a name, you've created a key in that hash with the same name. The value of that key is the value that was entered in the form. So to access that value you'll look at the "string" key in the params hash using params["string"]. From there, you can reverse the string using the Ruby method .reverse.