Rails - Apr 2006 - Advice needed on tracking down unusual error

Does anyone have advice on how to go about locating the cause of this 
error message:

ActionView::TemplateError (wrong number of arguments (3 for 1)) on line 
#4 of app/views/products/search.rhtml:
4: <%= start_form_tag :action => ''search'' %>

I don''t see anything wrong with line 4 above.

Some background: I''ve made a number of changes to Controllers, Layouts,
Views and Models in my app so it is going to be very difficult to back 
track and find where the app started to fail. I''ve a feeling this error
is possibly caused by bad formating in my code somewhere. Given this, 
what is the best approach to finding the bug?

thanks
-Lindsay

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Lindsay Boyd wrote:
> Does anyone have advice on how to go about locating the cause of this 
> error message:
> 
> ActionView::TemplateError (wrong number of arguments (3 for 1)) on line 
> #4 of app/views/products/search.rhtml:
> 4: <%= start_form_tag :action => ''search'' %>
> 
> I don''t see anything wrong with line 4 above.
I''d:

1) look at the HTML source generated if you take the line out, see if 
you can spot anything weird

2) try :url => { :action => ''search'' }, just in case.

Alan

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Alan Francis wrote:
> Lindsay Boyd wrote:
>> Does anyone have advice on how to go about locating the cause of this 
>> error message:
>> 
>> ActionView::TemplateError (wrong number of arguments (3 for 1)) on line
>> #4 of app/views/products/search.rhtml:
>> 4: <%= start_form_tag :action => ''search'' %>
>> 
>> I don''t see anything wrong with line 4 above.
> 
> I''d:
> 
> 1) look at the HTML source generated if you take the line out, see if 
> you can spot anything weird
> 
> 2) try :url => { :action => ''search'' }, just in
case.
> 
> Alan
By take the line out, I actually mean replace it with a literal <form 
method="post" action="/controller/search">

:-)

Alan

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Alan Francis wrote:
>replace it with a literal <form method="post"
action="/controller/search">
Thanks for the advice, Alan. I tried that and now I have:

ActionView::TemplateError (wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)) on line 
#13 of app/views/products/search.rhtml:
10: <center>
11:     <p><label for="search">UPC/Tag</label>
12:     <%= text_field ''search'',
''search'', :size => ''30'', :maxsize =>
''41'' %>
13:     <%= submit_tag ''search'' %>

So looks like something is badly screwed up!

-Lindsay


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Should line 12 be:

<%= text_field ''search'', ''search'', {
:size => ''30'', :maxsize => ''41'' }
%>

?

HTH
David

On 06/04/06, Lindsay Boyd <lindsay.boyd@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> Alan Francis wrote:
> >replace it with a literal <form method="post"
action="/controller/search">
>
> Thanks for the advice, Alan. I tried that and now I have:
>
> ActionView::TemplateError (wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)) on line
> #13 of app/views/products/search.rhtml:
> 10: <center>
> 11:     <p><label for="search">UPC/Tag</label>
> 12:     <%= text_field ''search'',
''search'', :size => ''30'', :maxsize =>
> ''41'' %>
> 13:     <%= submit_tag ''search'' %>
>
> So looks like something is badly screwed up!
>
> -Lindsay
>
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David Thomson wrote:
> Should line 12 be:
> 
> <%= text_field ''search'', ''search'', {
:size => ''30'', :maxsize => ''41'' }
> %>
> 
> ?
> 
> HTH
> David
Yes, you''re right - options in {}, but that isn''t causing this
error.
It''s as though I''ve somehow broken the form methods for my
app.

- Lindsay


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I don''t think anything is badly screwed up.

I have a theory that there is an unclosed erb line above.

Some <%= that never hits a %>... or some <%=
function(''stuff'' %> who never
hits a parenthesis.

Just a theory.

-hampton catlin.

On 4/6/06, Lindsay Boyd <lindsay.boyd@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
>
> Alan Francis wrote:
> >replace it with a literal <form method="post"
> action="/controller/search">
>
> Thanks for the advice, Alan. I tried that and now I have:
>
> ActionView::TemplateError (wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)) on line
> #13 of app/views/products/search.rhtml:
> 10: <center>
> 11:     <p><label for="search">UPC/Tag</label>
> 12:     <%= text_field ''search'',
''search'', :size => ''30'', :maxsize =>
> ''41'' %>
> 13:     <%= submit_tag ''search'' %>
>
> So looks like something is badly screwed up!
>
> -Lindsay
>
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Alan Francis wrote:
>> 2) try :url => { :action => ''search'' }, just in
case.
Tried this, but still get the same error.

-Lindsay



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Hampton wrote:
> I don''t think anything is badly screwed up.
> 
> I have a theory that there is an unclosed erb line above.
> 
> Some <%= that never hits a %>... or some <%=
function(''stuff'' %> who
> never
> hits a parenthesis.
> 
> Just a theory.
> 
> -hampton catlin.
I think you are right. Is there an easy way to locate this, or do I need 
to step through the code by hand?

-Lindsay

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>Is there an easy way to locate this
I''ve just a grepped | wc -l on the ERB tags: 902 open, 901 closed, so I
guess I have to find the extra or missing tag!

-Lindsay


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Ouch! But good work with the unix command!

I would say that, knowing processors, it probably is just north of where you
are getting that error.

-hampton.

On 4/6/06, Lindsay Boyd <lindsay.boyd@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
>
> >Is there an easy way to locate this
>
> I''ve just a grepped | wc -l on the ERB tags: 902 open, 901 closed,
so I
> guess I have to find the extra or missing tag!
>
> -Lindsay
>
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