Asigning values to atributies when source is nil

Rails
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I want to use something similar to the following:

@total_price += { product.price <> nil ? product.price : 0.0 }

This fails in rails with a “nil can’t be coerced into Float” error.
What is the (most) correct way to do this?

On a related issue, what is the significance of the value 40
following “cart.rb” in the trace snippet below? The entire class
file is much less than 40 lines long so is this a byte offset? If
so, how does one use it to locate the error in the source?

#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/cart.rb:40:in `add_product’

Regards,
Jim

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Mark Reginald J. wrote:

What is the (most) correct way to do this?

@total_price += product.price.to_f

Thank you very much. I missed your original reply in the mailing list
digest which accounts for my delay in responding.

Regards,
Jim

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James B. Byrne wrote:

I want to use something similar to the following:

@total_price += { product.price <> nil ? product.price : 0.0 }

This fails in rails with a “nil can’t be coerced into Float” error.
What is the (most) correct way to do this?

@total_price += product.price.to_f

On a related issue, what is the significance of the value 40
following “cart.rb” in the trace snippet below? The entire class
file is much less than 40 lines long so is this a byte offset? If
so, how does one use it to locate the error in the source?

#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/cart.rb:40:in `add_product’

“@total_price += product.price” is line 40 of
http://media.pragprog.com/titles/rails/code/depot_final/app/models/cart.rb

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