Answer by oreoluwa for Rails: Adding a "latest post" to blog

1. You shouldn't type it on your terminal, but in the rails console. On your terminal, type rails console, when that loads up, you can then do:

   post = Post.last

2. In order to only render for the last post, you wouldn't need the block, as such:

   <% post = Post.last %><div class="col-md-4 col-sm-6 portfolio-item"><a href="#portfolioModal6" class="portfolio-link" data-toggle="modal"><div class="portfolio-caption"><h4><%= link_to post.title, post %></h4><p class="text-muted"><%= post.created_at.strftime("%B, %d, %Y") %></p></div></a></div>

By the way, it's not best practice to handle domain objects in your view. You could have this as an instance variable in your controller, as a Facade object if you have multiple objects.