I got introduced today to an excellent Ruby on Rails tutorial with an entertaining zombie theme. It covered a lot of the basic concepts, many of which I’d skipped over in my haste to dive into a real-live project.

Being who I am, I noticed a couple of inconsistencies between the tutorial videos and the exercises. Actually, this only applies to the level 5 video; the rest seemed to be fine.

In the level 5 video at 2:10, the following match example is given:

match 'new_tweet' => "Tweets#new"

Note the uppercase T on Tweets. This T is uppercase throughout the video.

However, when I tried to do the second exercise for this level, the following answer was rejected:

match 'undead' => "Zombies#undead"

The hints told me to do this:

match 'undead' => "zombies#undead"

with a lower case z, which was accepted. Now I’m confused. Do we need a capital letter here or not?

In the same video at 3:30, the following match example is given:

match 'all' => redirect('/tweets')

Note that there is no leading slash on ‘all’; this format is consistent throughout the video.

However, when I tried to do the third exercise, the following answer was rejected:

match 'undead' => redirect('/zombies')

This time the hints told me to do this:

match '/undead' => redirect('/zombies')

Again, I’m confused. Do we need (or even want) a leading slash here?