Rails - May 2006 - new to rails; problem with testing section in Agile book

Hello, I should give the expected disclaimer that I am brand new to 
rails and am going through the Agile web development with Rails book 
right now. I am in the testing section and I can''t get past an error.

this is my cart_test.rb test file:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''

class CartTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  fixtures :products
	def setup
		@cart = Cart.new
	end
	# Replace this with your real tests.
	def test_add_unique_products
		@cart.add_product products(:version_control_book)
		@cart.add_product products(:automation_book)
		assert_equal products(:version_control_book).price + 
products(:automation_book).price, @cart.total_price
		assert_equal 2, @cart.items.size
	end
	def test_add_duplicate_product
		@card.add_product products(:version_control_book)
		@card.add_product products(:version_control_book)
		assert_equal 2*products(:version_control_book).price, 
@cart.total_price
		assert_equal 1, @cart.items.size
	end
end


and I am getting this error:

1) Error:
test_add_duplicate_product(CartTest):
NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
The error occured while evaluating nil.add_product
    test/unit/cart_test.rb:17:in `test_add_duplicate_product''





If there is more information i need to post please let me know.
Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,

Nate

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Hi Nate,

Nate wrote:
> 	def test_add_duplicate_product
> 		@card.add_product products(:version_control_book)
> 		@card.add_product products(:version_control_book)
Should that be @cart in the two lines above? Looks like a simple typo - 
but they can be the most frustrating!
> 1) Error:
> test_add_duplicate_product(CartTest):
> NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
> The error occured while evaluating nil.add_product
>     test/unit/cart_test.rb:17:in `test_add_duplicate_product''
> 
Simon

On May 18, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Nate wrote:
> 	def test_add_duplicate_product
> 		@card.add_product products(:version_control_book)
> 		@card.add_product products(:version_control_book)
> 		assert_equal 2*products(:version_control_book).price,
> @cart.total_price
> 		assert_equal 1, @cart.items.size
> 	end
I''m guessing you missed the two times you typed "@card"
instead of
"@cart"...

-Brian

Brian and Simon, I must say that I am COMPLETELY embarassed!  I had been 
looking at that for multiple hours and couldn''t find it at all.  I 
thought it had something to do with the book written pre rails 1.0 so i 
did some research about the changes made in the newer version and 
learned about use_transitional_fixtures vs use_instantiated_fixtures.
Anyway, that last part is irrelavant; thanks so much for find my glaring 
mistake, i wish i could erase this post! LOL

thanks again,

Nate

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