Rails - Dec 2005 - Newbie going blind on test from book

Hi all,

I''m working on the rails book and the test definition shown further
below
gives the following error. 

test_read_with_hash(ProductTest):
NoMethodError: 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.[]
    test/unit/product_test.rb:45:in `test_read_with_hash''

4 tests, 15 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors

  def test_read_with_hash
    assert_kind_of Product, @product
    vc_book = @products["version_control_book"]		<< line 45
    assert_equal vc_book["id"], @product.id
    assert_equal vc_book["title"], @product.title
    assert_equal vc_book["description"], @product.description
    assert_equal vc_book["image_url"], @product.image_url
    assert_equal vc_book["price"], @product.price
    assert_equal vc_book["date_available"], 
@product.date_available_before_type_cast
  end

Fixture in question:

version_control_book:
  id:              1
  title:           Pragmatic Version Control
  description:     How to use version control
  image_url:       http://.../sk_svn_small.jpg
  price:           29.95
  date_available:  2005-01-26 00:00:00


I''m clueless .. Thanx a lot


Regards,

Gerard.

-- 
"Who cares if it doesn''t do anything?  It was made with our new
Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ..."

My $Grtz =~ Gerard;
~
:wq!

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Gerard wrote:
> 4 tests, 15 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors
>
>  def test_read_with_hash
>    assert_kind_of Product, @product
>    vc_book = @products["version_control_book"]		<< line 45
                        ^
                        ^
                        ^
                        take this away

-a
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Regretfully that wasn''t it, althought the reply signs "> "
had me confused
somewhat I tried several. Removing any quotes or brackets results in syntax 
errors so that doesn''t improve.

I also tried the @products in single form @product, but that still gets the 
error:

test_read_with_hash(ProductTest):
NoMethodError: 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.[]
    test/unit/product_test.rb:45:in `test_read_with_hash''

4 tests, 15 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors

Regards,

Gerard.

On Friday 09 December 2005 01:43, ara.t.howard-32lpuo7BZBA@public.gmane.org
tried to type
something like:
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Gerard wrote:
> > 4 tests, 15 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors
> >
> >  def test_read_with_hash
> >    assert_kind_of Product, @product
> >    vc_book = @products["version_control_book"]		<<
line 45
>
>                         ^
>                         ^
>                         ^
>                         take this away
>
> -a
-- 
"Who cares if it doesn''t do anything?  It was made with our new
Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ..."

My $Grtz =~ Gerard;
~
:wq!