Long time programmer, but I just started learning RoR last week. I am
going through some examples in the book “Ruby on Rails: Up and
Running”.
The example I am on had me add a table to the database that looks like
so:
CREATE TABLE people (
id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
type varchar(20) default NULL,
name varchar(20) default NULL,
email varchar(30) default NULL,
street_address varchar(30) default NULL,
city varchar(30) default NULL,
state varchar(20) default NULL,
zip int(5) default NULL,
camera varchar(20) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
)
In addition, I created the following two classes:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
composed_of :address, :class_name => “Address”,
:mapping => [[:street_address, :street_address],
[:city, :city],
[:state, :state],
[:zip, :zip]]
end
class Address
def initialize(street_address, city, state, zip)
@street_address = street_address
@city = city
@state = state
@zip = zip
end
attr_reader :street_address, :city, :state, :zip
end
Finally, it had me run the following commands in Console:
elvis.name=Person.new
elvis.name=Person.new
NameError: undefined local variable or method `elvis’ for #<Object:
0x284f9e8>
from (irb):1elvis=Person.new
elvis=Person.new
=> #<Person id: nil, type: nil, name: nil, email: nil, street_address:
nil, city: nil, state: nil, zip: nil, camera: nil>elvis.name=“Elvis Presley”
elvis.name=“Elvis Presley”
=> “Elvis Presley”elvis.email=“[email protected]”
elvis.email=“[email protected]”
=> “[email protected]”address=Address.new(“3734 Elvis Presley Blvd”, “Memphis”, “Tennessee”, 38118)
address=Address.new(“3734 Elvis Presley Blvd”, “Memphis”, “Tennessee”,
=> #<Address:0x3f3ce94 @street_address=“3734 Elvis Presley Blvd”,
@zip=38118, @state=“Tennessee”, @city=“Memphis”>
elvis.address=address
elvis.address=address
=> #<Address:0x3f3ce94 @street_address=“3734 Elvis Presley Blvd”,
@zip=38118, @state=“Tennessee”, @city=“Memphis”>elvis.save
elvis.save
However, when I ran the latter-most command, “elvis.save” I received
the following (abbreviated) error:
NoMethodError: undefined method <=>' for :zip:Symbol from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/ active_record/base.rb:2177:insort’
from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/
active_record/base.rb:2177:in attribute_names' from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/ active_record/base.rb:2458:inclone_attributes’
…
Why is the method ‘<=>’ being attempted on the zip field?