Rails - Feb 2006 - Problems with sample code from "agile webdev. w. rails"

Hello,

I am veeeery new to rails and also to ruby. I have 2 books here on my 
desk and try to go through it.
The first book is "Agile Webdevelopment with Rails" and I have trouble
with the following code which I have from the book. I cant get it 
working. I searched a lot on google - and also on the erata pages of the 
book publisher but without any luck. I hope someone can help me.

here is the complete Cart class (cart.rb file)

#-------------
class Cart
  attr_reader :items
  attr_reader :total_price

  def initialize
    @items = []
    @total_price = 0.0
  end

  def add_product(product)
    item = @items.find { |i| i.product.id == product.id }
    if item
      item.quantity += 1
    else
      item << LineItem.for_product(product)    #
<<<<<<<< this is line
17
      @items << item
    end
    @total_price += product.price
  end

end
#-------------

I get the following error when I want to add a product to the shopping 
cart

#----------------
NoMethodError in Store#add_to_cart

You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.<<
RAILS_ROOT: script/../config/..

Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/cart.rb:17:in `add_product''
./script/../config/../app/controllers/store_controller.rb:11:in 
`add_to_cart''
Request

Parameters: {"id"=>"2"}

Show session dump

Response

Headers: {"cookie"=>[],
"Cache-Control"=>"no-cache"}
#-----------------

What I can say from my less knowledge of rails is, that ''item''
seams to
be nil and this causes an error

i would be happy if someone can give me a tip  - I cant find a solution
thanks a lot
Andreas

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Check using IRB..or look at database whether u have that Line Item.

Also I notice u have another error in your code. Try to solve it

> NoMethodError in Store#add_to_cart



--
Rgds,
--Siva Jagadeesan
http://www.varcasa.com/
My First Rails Project.
Education Through Collabration
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