I was successful in reaching page 184 in the book “Agile Web
Development with Rails” 3rd edition and while running the website with
PostGreSQL as the backend, the power went down. The PostGreSQL
database contents look OK and so do the source code files I was
editing. But whenever I click on any “Add To Cart” button in the
catalog, I get the following information in the terminal window where
the “script/server” command was issued. By the way, I’m using
Mongrel, not Webrick.
Processing StoreController#add_to_cart (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-04-06
11:49:15) [POST]
Parameters: {“commit”=>“Add to Cart”,
“authenticity_token”=>“2hiFEqPkmMUXAZnTJ6jN4TKkMagLt0BY0W/M6fJj1+w=”,
“id”=>“1”}
Product Load (1.0ms) SELECT * FROM “products” WHERE
(“products”.“id” = 1)
NoMethodError (You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.add_product):
app/controllers/store_controller.rb:9:in add_to_cart' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:159:inprocess_client’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:158:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:158:inprocess_client’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:285:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:285:ininitialize’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:285:in new' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:285:inrun’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:268:in initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:268:innew’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mongrel.rb:268:in `run’
Rendered rescues/_trace (72.4ms)
Rendered rescues/_request_and_response (0.8ms)
Rendering rescues/layout (internal_server_error)
I really don’t want to lose all my work, but I’m totally lost on how
to fix this problem.
Sincerely,
Arthur
If you cannot see why the object at line 9 in store_controller.rb is nil
then now is your chance to learn about ruby-debug. Have a look and see
what
is happening. (I don’t know the answer).
2009/4/6 eengnerd [email protected]
Nice idea, but I don’t have any books or tutorials on that…don’t
even know how to start the debugger.
Arthur
OK, got ruby-debug installed and issued the command: script/server -u
Got running in debug mode. No more info than before. Now what?
Arthur
eengnerd wrote:
Nice idea, but I don’t have any books or tutorials on that…don’t
even know how to start the debugger.
Arthur
A quick Web search on the subject would give you the answer. (FWIW, I
was equally unenlightened about the debugger till about 2 days ago.)
Best,
Marnen Laibow-Koser
[email protected]
http://www.marnen.org
Does this line produce a product?
Product Load (1.0ms) SELECT * FROM “products” WHERE
(“products”.“id” = 1)
There are lots of tutorials. Also look at the rails guides and
railscasts. I
can’t point to them off the top of my head but I am sure google will
find
them.
2009/4/6 eengnerd [email protected]
Obviously not in the estimation of the mongrel server and interacting
code, but the database records are there and the id does exist.
Arthur
I tried dropping ALL the tables in the PostGreSQL database and running
rake db:migrate again. This results in the very same error messages
as before. As the system was running successfully before the power
outage, I’m of the opinion that there is something else going on
here…perhaps there’s a way to recompile all of the ruby source
files?
Arthur
You need to show your controller or view.
I seriously doubt something went that wrong with ruby, but an apt-get
should work just fine to re-install.
-ht
Lets have a look at your store controller…
The nil happens here app/controllers/store_controller.rb:9:in
`add_to_cart’
This feels like a mistyped variable to me. Post the controller code for
that action though, it’s probably a very simple little solution.