Rails - Apr 2012 - NilClass in Partial

I appreciate your help in advance; I feel like the issue is staring me
in the face!

I have two models: event and topic

/models/event.rb:
class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  ..
  has_many :topics
  ..


/models/topic.rb:
class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :event
end

I''m successfully showing the dependent topics with the event:
/views/events/show.html.erb:

..
<table>
<%@event.topics.each do |topic| %>
<tr>
  <td> <%= topic.Name %> </td>
  <td> <%= topic.Description %></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
</table>
..

When I attempt to edit the record that I can successfully show, I get:

Showing /views/events/_topic.html.erb where line #2 raised:

undefined method `new_record?'' for nil:NilClass
Extracted source (around line #2):

1: <div class="topic">
2:   <% new_or_existing = topic.new_record? ? ''new'':
''existing'' %>
3:   <% prefix =
"event[#{new_or_existing}_topic_attributes][]"%>
4:
5:   <% fields_for prefix, topic do |topic_form| -%>

The partial is rendered in edit.html.erb:

<h1>Editing tag</h1>

<%= render ''form'' %>
      <div id="topicContentArea">
        <%= render ''topic'', :collection => @event.topics
%>
      </div>
<%= link_to ''Show'', @event %> |
<%= link_to ''Back'', events_path %>


Ideas are appreciated!
Thanks,
Karl

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On 21 April 2012 05:04, Karl McCollester
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I appreciate your help in advance; I feel like the issue is staring me
> in the face!
>
> I have two models: event and topic
>
> /models/event.rb:
> class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
>  ..
>  has_many :topics
>  ..
>
>
> /models/topic.rb:
> class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base
>  belongs_to :event
> end
>
> I''m successfully showing the dependent topics with the event:
> /views/events/show.html.erb:
>
> ..
> <table>
> <%@event.topics.each do |topic| %>
> <tr>
>  <td> <%= topic.Name %> </td>
>  <td> <%= topic.Description %></td>
> </tr>
> <% end %>
> </table>
> ..
>
> When I attempt to edit the record that I can successfully show, I get:
>
> Showing /views/events/_topic.html.erb where line #2 raised:
>
> undefined method `new_record?'' for nil:NilClass
> Extracted source (around line #2):
>
> 1: <div class="topic">
> 2:   <% new_or_existing = topic.new_record? ? ''new'':
''existing'' %>
> 3:   <% prefix =
"event[#{new_or_existing}_topic_attributes][]"%>
> 4:
> 5:   <% fields_for prefix, topic do |topic_form| -%>
>
> The partial is rendered in edit.html.erb:
>
> <h1>Editing tag</h1>
>
> <%= render ''form'' %>
>      <div id="topicContentArea">
>        <%= render ''topic'', :collection =>
@event.topics %>
I have not used :collection to pass something like @event.topics
rather than a simple variable such as @topics, so wonder whether this
works as you expect.  You could try
<%= render ''topic'', :collection => @event.topics, :as
=> :topic %>
in order to force the variable name in the partial.

Colin

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