RoR - redirect_to undefined? - ruby-on-rails

currently doing an tutorial and ran into an issue with redirect.
Rails prints out the following message:
undefined method ` redirect_to' for #<PortfoliosController:0x00007fc6ec31b108> Did you mean? redirect_to
PortfolioController:
class PortfoliosController < ApplicationController
def index
#portfolio_items = Portfolio.all
end
def new
#portoflio_item = Portfolio.new
end
def create
#portfolio_item = Portfolio.new(params.require(:portfolio).permit(:title, :subtitle, :body))
respond_to do |format|
if #portfolio_item.save
format.html { redirect_to portfolios_path, notice: 'Portfolio was successfully created.' }
else
format.html { render :index }
end
end
end
def edit
#portfolio_item = Portfolio.find(params[:id])
end
def update
#portfolio_item = Portfolio.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
if #portfolio_item.update(params.require(:portfolio).permit(:title, :subtitle, :body))
format.html { redirect_to portfolios_path, notice: 'Portfolio item successfully updated!'}
else
format.html { render :edit }
end
end
end
end
As you can see, i use redirect_to also in the def create without any problems, but def update says redirect_to is undefined?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

As you've typed  redirect_to, that's almost correct, and also Rails is telling you probably you mean redirect_to, then the problem is like in most of the cases, when opening curly braces, accidentally a non-breaking space is added. Unless you're using an editor that handles non-visible characters then you can realize of this, otherwise the error will be there until Rails throws the error.
Just delete the space between the { and respond_to.
For Atom see atom-highlight-bad-chars.
For Sublime see Dealing with Alt+Space (non-breakable space) in Sublime Text.

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