The "URL Params" section is misleading about the params hash.

[Sdcrouse]

Hi. The reason that I'm saying that the "URL Params" section is misleading about the params hash, is because it suggests that the hash looks something like this:

params = {
  :id => 1
}

However, it REALLY looks more like this:

params = {
  :id => "1"
}

I have to bring that minor detail up because it affected how I went about coding the /multiply dynamic route. I had thought that the numbers specified by the user would be stored as integers, not strings. I finally figured out that I needed to use #to_i, but the lesson doesn't mention that at all (although the lesson after it does).

The other thing that I found is that I had to make the response a string, not an integer, or Sinatra would think that I was returning a status code. The lesson doesn't mention this either, but that may be somewhat implied; it says to use their example dynamic route (which returns a string) as a template.

My concern is that this will cause some confusion for other students as well. Thanks (as always) for looking into this!

---Sdcrouse

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