Overall a solid project/ DRY up your controllers where possible

[vanderhoop]

Hi Mary,
Nicely done on your first project. It's clear you put a lot of thought into the datamodeling and user stories (great tests!), which probably made the actual implementation a heck of a lot easier. If I have to nitpick regarding process, I'd say "Wireframe!", because wireframes will be super helpful when you get to coding up the user interface, as you'll have a blueprint to go by and therefore have almost no style-related decisions to stress over while coding.

Also, your RecipesController is uber repetitive. You could abstract the create & update actions into a function (the only conditional would be whether to split on a dollar sign versus comma/period.