Panda level submission

[jperezish]

Here's my Panda level. App deployed to Heroku as well.

[jwo]

Nicely done! Everything works, looks great. 🎉

[jperezish]

@jwo I updated this with tiger. I updated the Heroku site as well.

[jwo]

NICE!!!

Each time the page loads, it will need to pick up this file and interpret the yml file.

I'm going to push you a pick on this: Can you think of a way to have these picks be a Ruby class that dont' change?

[jwo]

Hey @jperezish ---

Check out these lines: https://github.com/jperezish/Episode8/blob/master/db/setup.rb#L10-L11

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.drop_database (connection_details.fetch('database')) rescue nil
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.create_database(connection_details.fetch('database')) rescue nil

I bet you're having trouble dropping and creating the DB on heroku (because they don't allow those sorts of things).

To try it out, we could remote the rescue nil and see if you get a better error.

Assuming that's the case, what do you think your next move could be?

(finally, this shows why rescue nil is evil)

[jperezish]

@jwo this is a tough one to sort out. I've been researching the whole topic around heroku and postgres and the best way to set to connect and seed a DB with Sinatra and Active Record. So I removed the rescue nil as you recommended and then came across using rescue ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid from this post with the same error message. Now I have a more meaningful active record error message (vs the rather cryptic pg one).

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound at /adventure/my_game
Couldn't find all Pages with IDs (1, 3) (found 0 results, but was looking for 2)

So now I'll sort through this bit.

[jwo]

COOL, ok, so your data isn't there -- the pages don't exist. If you do Page.find(723423), it'll through that.

Rails will typically through a 404 here, but you'll need to handle that yourself in Sinatra.