Rails - Apr 2006 - Issue with validation

Hello, I just got hold of the book ''Agile Web Development with
Rails''
and I have been following along.
I just went through a segment of trying to add validation to a form.

I added the following code, as instructed, to my app/models/Products.rb 
file:

protected
  def validate
    errors.add(:Price, "should be positive") unless Price.nil? ||
Price 
>= 0.01
  end

with the exception of the upper-case P on Price, this is letter for 
letter (unless I just can''t read today).

When I try and submit the form I get this error.


NameError in Admin#create

uninitialized constant Price


Can'' figure this out at all. I''ve been following the tutorial
to the
letter and I''m sure if they had had this problem it would have been 
mentioned. Anyone have any ideas? I''m using the latest release of RoR, 
Mac OSX and MySQL 4.1

Thanks

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On 4/8/06, Jason Wilson <jwilson.k4izoku@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> protected
>   def validate
>     errors.add(:Price, "should be positive") unless Price.nil? ||
Price >> 0.01
>   end
>
> with the exception of the upper-case P on Price, this is letter for letter
> (unless I just can''t read today).
>
Uppercase words are considered constants or class names. lower case
''price''
would be a local variable, you probably want to use ''@price''
(note the lower
case too) since that would be an instance variable.

So I''d try:

protected
  def validate
    errors.add(:price, "should be positive") unless @price.nil? ||
@price >0.01
  end


I''m still just a noob though so take my advice with a grain of salt.

-Clint
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Thanks, Clint,

Issue resolved, it did work as typed once I switched the var to 
lower-case. I must have skipped over that part.


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