NoMethodError in StoreController#add_to_cart

Rails
1

Hi

I am new to Rails, and I was trying to follow the “Agile Web D.
With Rails” textbook. As I was trying to create the “Add_to_cart”
application, I found that when I clicked the “Add to Cart” link on my
http://localhost:3000/store page, I got the following error:

NoMethodError in Store#display_cart

Showing app/views/store/display_cart.rhtml where line #20 raised: You
have
a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.product

Extracted source (around line #20): 17:
18: <%
19: for item in @items
20: product = item.product
21: -%>
22:
23: <%= item.quantity %>

Just for pointer, I had actually got to the correct page once, but then
I
skipped the “Iteration C2: Handling Errors” part in the tutorial and
went
straight to the “8.5 Iteration C3: Finishing the Cart” part, and
implemented
the empty_cart function there. I have been getting this problem since
then
(when I implemented this function and clicked the link in browser and
then
came back to add more objects to the cart). Could it be that I have
deleted
the object or something? After some googling I thought that the problem
was
actually related to the session, and so i tried to clear the session by
using:

  1. rake db:sessions:clear
  2. rake tmp:sessions:clear

But even this did not solve the problem. So I am clueless as of now.
Below
is the code for reference:

in store_controller.rb

def add_to_cart
    product = Product.find(params[:id])
    @cart = find_cart
    @cart.add_product(product)
    redirect_to(:action => 'display_cart')
end

def display_cart
    @cart = find_cart
    @items = @cart.items
    if @items.empty?
        redirect_to_index("Your cart is currently empty")
    end
end

def find_cart
    session[:cart] ||= Cart.new
end

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Any help would be really appreciated !!!

Thanks,
Kapil

2

Hi

I am still waiting for a reply !!

Thanks,
Kapil

On 7/15/07, kapil kaushik [email protected] wrote:

Showing app/views/store/display_cart.r html where line #20 raised: You

  1. rake db:sessions:clear
    @cart.add_product(product)
def find_cart
    session[:cart] ||= Cart.new
end

====================

Any help would be really appreciated !!!

Thanks,
Kapil

–
I can sum up everything i learned about life in three words – IT GOES
ON !!

3

I have been waiting for some help from the gurus out here for last 5
days.
Anything I have been trying is not working !!

Thanks,
Kapil

On 7/15/07, kapil kaushik [email protected] wrote:

Showing app/views/store/display_cart.r html where line #20 raised: You

  1. rake db:sessions:clear
    @cart.add_product(product)
def find_cart
    session[:cart] ||= Cart.new
end

====================

Any help would be really appreciated !!!

Thanks,
Kapil

–
I can sum up everything i learned about life in three words – IT GOES
ON !!

4

Everything looks normal at first sight…
what does your @items collection look like ? Do “p @items” in your
controller, it will be displayed in your console.

5

Hi Stijn ,

Thanks !!

On printing the items, I saw that my product did not have any order_id.
On
thorough analysis of my code, I found that I had mistakenly added an
extra
constructor in the line_items.rb file which was causing the problem. But
it
took me decent amount of time to do the code review. Things are working
fine
now.

Apologies for bothering the community unnecessarily.

Regards,
Kapil

But i had thought that the

On 7/20/07, Stijn P. [email protected] wrote:

–
I can sum up everything i learned about life in three words – IT GOES
ON !!