Django view not working for practice project

[NorDe]

Context:

I am creating a website to house some webcomics I made as a project to practice Django. I am adapting Django's tutorial to create the site (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/intro/tutorial03/ About halfway down the page under "Write views that actually do something"). I am having some difficulty getting part of my view to work as expected.

Expectation:

What I see when I go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/futureFleet/ : latest_comic

What I want to see: A dictionary of my 2 comics.

Question:

I think I am doing something wrong at this line

context = {'latest_comic': latest_comic}. I am adapting this line from the tutorial. I think the line needs to be run to connect to the template. What do I do? What am I missing?

Models.py

class Comic(models.Model):
    #title
    comic_title_text = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    #date
    comic_pub_date = models.DateTimeField('comic date published')
    #image
    comic_location = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    #explanation
    comic_explanation_text = models.CharField(max_length=400, blank=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.comic_title_text

    def was_published_recently(self):
        return self.comic_pub_date >= timezone.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)

views.py

  def index(request):
    latest_comic = Comic.objects.order_by('-comic_pub_date')[:2]
    context = {'latest_comic': latest_comic}
    return HttpResponse(context)
    # return render(request, 'futureFleet/index.html', context) This sends to the template but doesn’t work at the moment

Database

"Welcome Aboard" "2018-01-15 21:02:54" "/home/user/Desktop/django/djangoFutureFleet/mysite/futureFleet/static/futureFleet/images/1.JPG" "this is the first comic"

"Space Vaccine" "2018-01-15 23:02:22" "/home/user/Desktop/django/djangoFutureFleet/mysite/futureFleet/static/futureFleet/images/2.JPG" "This is comic 2"

[Jani Tiainen]

Hi.

Could you show your template also?

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[Matemática A3K]

views.py

  def index(request):
    latest_comic = Comic.objects.order_by('-comic_pub_date')[:2]

This has an implicit .all(), it's the same than doing

Comic.objects.all().order_by('-comic_pub_date')[:2]

Then you are slicing it for the first 2 records, that's why you see 2 records. Use .first() instead the slicing to get only one record (or slice 1, [:1] or [0]). Your template code also support several elements, you should check it