Help with unless

Rails
1

Hi,

I need a fresh set of eyes to look at this bit of controller code and
tell
me why I might be getting an error message:

    lookup = Profit.find(:all, :conditions => [ "user_id = ? AND

product_id = ?", uid, pid])
unless lookup.empty?
if (lookup.updated_on > 360.minutes.ago)
return
end
end

If lookup is empty, then I get an error message that
lookup.updated_ondoesn’t exist. I’ve tried
lookup.nil? but lookup gets returned in the form of [] so that empty
works.
But if lookup is empty should not the code inside the statement get
ignored?

Any suggestions on how I might rework that code?

Thanks
Steve O.
http://www.smarkets.net

2

On 12/22/05, Steve O. [email protected] wrote:

        end
    end

If lookup is empty, then I get an error message that lookup.updated_on
doesn’t exist. I’ve tried lookup.nil? but lookup gets returned in the form
of [] so that empty works. But if lookup is empty should not the code inside
the statement get ignored?

Any suggestions on how I might rework that code?

Profit.find(:all) will return an array. The array will be empty if
none of the conditions can be satisified.

Later on, you’re calling updated_on on the array object, and I don’t
think that’s a valid method for an array object.

You probably want to use Profit.find(:first) (or maybe even
Profit.find_by_user_id_and_product_id().

3

Yep. You guys were both right. I had changed my call from a
find_by_user_id
to a find(:all) and find all expects there might be more than one in the
array.

Thanks.

Steve

4

:all returns an array of objects. :first would retrun the object in
question and allow you to do that. I think you want lookup[0] - the
first object in the array.

On 12/22/05, Steve O. [email protected] wrote:

        end

Steve O.
http://www.smarkets.net

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