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Aa Aa

2008-May-15 05:40 UTC

ActiveRecord - nil object when you didn''t expect it

Hi,

I have the following code in a RoR project, models and tests are all in
the proper directories:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + ''/../test_helper''

class GalleryTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  fixtures :galleries

  @gallery = nil

  def test_presence_of
    @gallery = Gallery.new
    @gallery.title = ''My test gallery''
    @gallery.nr = 123
    image = Image.new(1, 100, ''jpg'')
    @gallery.images = Array.new
    @gallery.images << image
    @gallery.save

    assert @gallery.valid?
  end
end

class Gallery < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :title, :nr, :images
  validates_numericality_of :nr
  validates_length_of :title, :in => 1..255

  has_many :images
end

class Image < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :nr, :sort_nr, :ext
  validates_presence_of :sort_nr
  validates_presence_of :ext

  belongs_to :gallery

  def initialize(nr, sort_nr, ext)
    @nr = nr
    @sort_nr = sort_nr
    @ext = ext
  end
end

When I run the gallery test file, ruby shows me the following error:

test_presence_of(GalleryTest):
NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occurred while evaluating nil.[]
    c:/program
files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_
record/base.rb:1871:in `read_attribute''
...
record/transactions.rb:121:in `transaction''
    c:/program
files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.6/lib/active_
record/transactions.rb:129:in `save''
    test/unit/gallery_test.rb:23:in `test_presence_of''

It has something to do with gallery.images, but I can''t figure out how
to fix this.

Another question (offtopic): Why does it take 10 seconds for the test to
start running? This gets annoying when you want to "code a little, test
a little".
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Frederick Cheung

2008-May-15 09:19 UTC

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Re: ActiveRecord - nil object when you didn''t expect it

On 15 May 2008, at 06:40, Aa Aa wrote:
>
> Hi,
> class Image < ActiveRecord::Base
>  validates_presence_of :nr, :sort_nr, :ext
>  validates_presence_of :sort_nr
>  validates_presence_of :ext
>
>  belongs_to :gallery
>
>  def initialize(nr, sort_nr, ext)
>    @nr = nr
>    @sort_nr = sort_nr
>    @ext = ext
>  end
> end
You''re overriding activerecord''s initialize function, but
without
calling super, so stuff is not initialized properly (and thus crazy  
stuff happens. In addition activerecord attributes are not persisted  
as instance variables so you inititialize function doesn''t do what you
think it does. Why do you need a custom initialize at all ?
>
>
> Another question (offtopic): Why does it take 10 seconds for the  
> test to
> start running? This gets annoying when you want to "code a little,  
> test
> a little".Probably because certain bits of ruby are a lot slower on windows  
(there was another thread about this a day or 2 ago)

Fred

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Aa Aa

2008-May-15 10:01 UTC

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Re: ActiveRecord - nil object when you didn''t expect it

Frederick Cheung wrote:> On 15 May 2008, at 06:40, Aa Aa wrote:
> 
>>    @nr = nr
>>    @sort_nr = sort_nr
>>    @ext = ext
>>  end
>> end
> 
> You''re overriding activerecord''s initialize function, but
without
> calling super, so stuff is not initialized properly (and thus crazy
> stuff happens. In addition activerecord attributes are not persisted
> as instance variables so you inititialize function doesn''t do what
you
> think it does. Why do you need a custom initialize at all ?
> 
>>
>>
>> Another question (offtopic): Why does it take 10 seconds for the  
>> test to
>> start running? This gets annoying when you want to "code a little,
>> test
>> a little".
> Probably because certain bits of ruby are a lot slower on windows
> (there was another thread about this a day or 2 ago)
> 
> Fred
Can''t test it right now, but super could be the issue indeed. I did a 
initialize override so I could do this

my_image = Image.New(123, 1, ''jpg'')

instead of

my_image = Image.New
my_image.nr = 123
my_image.sort_nr = 1
my_image.ext = ''jpg''

Is there another way to send arguments to initialize without doing an 
override?
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Frederick Cheung

2008-May-15 10:06 UTC

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Re: ActiveRecord - nil object when you didn''t expect it

On 15 May 2008, at 11:01, Aa Aa wrote:
>
> Can''t test it right now, but super could be the issue indeed. I
did a
> initialize override so I could do this
>
> my_image = Image.New(123, 1, ''jpg'')
>
> instead of
>
> my_image = Image.New
> my_image.nr = 123
> my_image.sort_nr = 1
> my_image.ext = ''jpg''
>
> Is there another way to send arguments to initialize without doing an
Image.new :nr => 123, :sort_nr => 1, :ext => ''jpg''

Fred


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Aa Aa

2008-May-15 17:49 UTC

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Re: ActiveRecord - nil object when you didn''t expect it

Frederick Cheung wrote:> On 15 May 2008, at 11:01, Aa Aa wrote:
> 
>> my_image.sort_nr = 1
>> my_image.ext = ''jpg''
>>
>> Is there another way to send arguments to initialize without doing an
> 
> Image.new :nr => 123, :sort_nr => 1, :ext =>
''jpg''
> 
> Fred
Thanks Fred, the test is working now. I''ve removed the initialize and 
used the => thing instead.
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