Rails - Feb 2009 - Problem - getting a nil object in view?

Hello All,

I am new to ruby programming,
Problem is -

In my controller -

I defined a private method like
:private
def _list(searchBy, moreResults = false)

# another code goes here.................
@items_by_language = {}
      @items.each do |item|
        @items_by_language[item.language]=[] if
@items_by_language[item.language] == nil
        @items_by_language[item.language] << item
      end


end


# This @items_by_language is a hash which I am accessing in my view
named list.html.erb  But I get following error
 NoMethodError in Home#list

Showing home/list.html.erb where line #6 raised:

You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occurred while evaluating nil.each

Extracted source (around line #6):


list.html.erb code -----------------------

<%@items_by_language.each do |key,val|%>
<%val.each do |items|%>

//////code performed on @items_by_language hash variable

<%end%>
<%end%>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
In controller "_list method" is  private and I want it private . Thats
why it is not allowed me to access @items_by_language.


What should I do?

Thanks,
Vikas
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On Feb 20, 3:52 am, Vikas Gholap
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> list.html.erb code -----------------------
>
> <%@items_by_language.each do |key,val|%>
> <%val.each do |items|%>
>
> //////code performed on @items_by_language hash variable
>
> <%end%>
> <%end%>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> In controller "_list method" is  private and I want it private .
Thats
> why it is not allowed me to access @items_by_language.
method visibility has nothing to do with instance variables. If you
are going to localhost:3000/some_controller/list then your _list
method is probably not even being called.

Fred
>
> What should I do?
>
> Thanks,
> Vikas
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> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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