OOP basics

Rails
1

I’ve got:

def new
@schoolclass = Schoolclass.new(:day=>1, :start_time=>"2006:01:01
00:00:00, :description=>“enter description here”)
breakpoint()
end

after the breakpoint, I can @schoolclass.inspect and see the
@schoolclass attributes, however @schoolclass.day, @schoolclass[:day]
and @schoolclass[“day”] all return NIL.

what am I doing wrong?

thanks in advance for any light you can shed!

Les

2

Les N. wrote:

I’ve got:

def new
@schoolclass = Schoolclass.new(:day=>1, :start_time=>"2006:01:01
00:00:00, :description=>“enter description here”)
breakpoint()
end

after the breakpoint, I can @schoolclass.inspect and see the
@schoolclass attributes, however @schoolclass.day, @schoolclass[:day]
and @schoolclass[“day”] all return NIL.

what am I doing wrong?

  1. Not sure if the typo is in this posting, or in the code, but you are
    missing a closing quote after the 00:00:00.
  2. is day an integer field in the schema ? If its a string, you’ll need
    to quote it.

With a migration of:

create_table :schoolclasses do |t|
t.column :day, :integer
t.column :start_time, :datetime
t.column :description, :string
end

That code above (with the quote added) works for me in console, so I
assume the datetime format is ok.

@sc = Schoolcass.new(:day => 1, :start_time => “2006:01:01 00:00:00”, :description => “ddd”)
=> #<Schoolclass:0x257fee4 @new_record=true,
@attributes={“description”=>“ddd”, “day”=>1, “start_time”=>“2006:01:01
00:00:00”}>

A.