Rails - Aug 2005 - Issue with 'basket' action ... ??? Wha ... ?

Hello all.

This is a strange question, but ...

Is there some issue with name an action ''basket''? Like so,

class ShopController < ApplicationController
  def basket
    ... < do stuff > ...
  end
end

The reason I ask is because when I created the above action along with
an accompanying basket.rhtml template, the application ignored the
action entirely and went right to rendering the template, no questions
asked. No matter what I did in the ''basket'' action, it was
ignored.
There wasn''t a heckuvalot going on in either the controller or the
view, and the model, in this case, was not an issue, since the
controller and view are merely dealing with a @session variable which
is standing in for a model class.

The moment I renamed the action and template to ''show_basket'',
everything worked fine.

I realize this is a little like a "Doctor-it-hurts-when-I-do-this"
question, but I would be interested in knowing the answer. It''s not
good when things work for mysterious reasons ...

Any insights are appreciated.

All the best,
Greg

Greg McClure wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> This is a strange question, but ...
> 
> Is there some issue with name an action ''basket''? Like
so,
> 
> class ShopController < ApplicationController
>   def basket
>     ... < do stuff > ...
>   end
> end
> 
> The reason I ask is because when I created the above action along with
> an accompanying basket.rhtml template, the application ignored the
> action entirely and went right to rendering the template, no questions
> asked. No matter what I did in the ''basket'' action, it
was ignored.
> There wasn''t a heckuvalot going on in either the controller or the
> view, and the model, in this case, was not an issue, since the
> controller and view are merely dealing with a @session variable which
> is standing in for a model class.
> 
> The moment I renamed the action and template to
''show_basket'',
> everything worked fine.
> 
> I realize this is a little like a
"Doctor-it-hurts-when-I-do-this"
> question, but I would be interested in knowing the answer. It''s
not
> good when things work for mysterious reasons ...
> 
> Any insights are appreciated.
> 
It might not be that useful but I just created an action called basket 
with a simple render :text => '''' method call.  This
displayed the text
as expected.  I created a basket.rhtml template but this was ignored as 
the explicit render in the basket action took preference.  Once I 
removed the render call in the action, the basket.rhtml template 
displayed as expected.  Maybe the problem comes (somehow) from your use 
of the session?

Chris

> Maybe the problem comes (somehow) from your use
> of the session?
I thought this might be the case, but I was so frustrated after
dealing with the problem last night that I didn''t test it out.
I''ll
give it a go today.

Thanks for testing this on your own, I appreciate it. I thought I
might be stepping on some heretofore unheard of namespace or
something, but that doesn''t seem to be it either. Strange problem.

All the best,
Greg

Hello Greg,

Greg McClure said the following on 2005-08-23 03:18:
> Hello all.
> 
> This is a strange question, but ...
> 
> Is there some issue with name an action ''basket''? Like
so,
> 
> class ShopController < ApplicationController
>   def basket
>     ... < do stuff > ...
>   end
> end
Are you sure the method is not protected ?  If you do
def ShopController < ApplicationController
   # Some actions
protected
   def helpers
   end

   def basket
   end
end

Then your basket action won''t be called - it needs to be public.

Hope that helps,
François

Thanks, François, for your suggestion.

Strangely, no, the method is not protected. As soon as I changed the
name of the method only, to ''show_basket'', it worked fine. All
the
other methods in the class work as expected, too. Last night, if I
changed the method back to ''basket'', it stopped working. The
classes
are really barebones, I don''t have any obvious opportunities for
namespace collisions, at least not that I can see, but the code is
very simple and there''s not a whole lot to miss. Also, there was only
one ''basket'' method in the application, in the ShopController
class.

I grepped the both the project directories and the gems directories
where the rails classes reside, looking for instances of
"\<basket\>",
but there''s nothing which cropped up to indicate that that method name
steps on anything else.

I think it may be related, somehow, to a session variable. I''m
referencing it like so, "@session[:basket]", and perhaps
that''s what''s
messing up. I''m going to change some names around later and see if
that''s it, but if anyone else has any more suggestions, I''d
sure like
to hear them.

Peace,
Greg

On 8/23/05, François Beausoleil <fbeausoleil-IQIa899fVSs@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> Greg McClure said the following on 2005-08-23 03:18:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > This is a strange question, but ...
> >
> > Is there some issue with name an action ''basket''?
Like so,
> >
> > class ShopController < ApplicationController
> >   def basket
> >     ... < do stuff > ...
> >   end
> > end
> 
> Are you sure the method is not protected ?  If you do
> def ShopController < ApplicationController
>    # Some actions
> protected
>    def helpers
>    end
> 
>    def basket
>    end
> end
> 
> Then your basket action won''t be called - it needs to be public.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> François
> 
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