Rails - Sep 2008 - The error occurred while evaluating nil.to_sym

Hello guys,

I''ve been developing in Ruby for a few months and I am starting to  
work with Rails. I am having a problem right from the start and I  
think I am not doing anything wrong. I have performed the following  
steps:

1. run rails test
2. run script/server and it works perfectly connecting to the database  
without problems (sqllite)
5. run script/generate scaffold release_notes title:string  
version:string content:text
6. rake db:migrate
7. shutdown the server and start it again
8. http://localhost:3000/release_notes/new and it works just fine
9. After I click on create I get the error below.  I have checked that  
removing all the "link_to" entries the error disappear. any ideas?  
what am I forgetting?

NoMethodError in Release_notes#index
Showing release_notes/index.html.erb where line #15 raised:

You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.to_sym


Extracted source (around line #15):

12:     <td><%=h release_notes.title %></td>
13:     <td><%=h release_notes.version %></td>
14:     <td><%=h release_notes.content %></td>
15:     <td><%= link_to ''Show'', release_notes
%></td>
16:     <td><%= link_to ''Edit'',
edit_release_notes_path(release_notes)
%></td>
17:     <td><%= link_to ''Destroy'', release_notes,
:confirm => ''Are you
sure?'', :method => :delete %></td>
18:   </tr>




RAILS_ROOT: /Users/gacilu/Knowledge Administration/Koiaka Project/ 
Projects/F1/Development/Iteration4/code/iqserver

Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.1/lib/ 
action_controller/routing/route.rb:145:in `extra_keys''
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.1/lib/ 
action_controller/routing/route.rb:145:in `map''
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.1/lib/ 
action_controller/routing/route.rb:145:in `extra_keys''
generated code (/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ 
actionpack-2.1.1/lib/action_controller/routing/route.rb:45):3:in  
`generate''
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.1/lib/ 
action_controller/routing/route.rb:122:in `generate''
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.1/lib/ 
action_controller/routing/route_set.rb:337:in `generate''
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.1/lib/ 
action_controller/url_rewriter.rb:131:in `rewrite_path''
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.1/lib/ 
action_controller/url_rewriter.rb:110:in `rewrite_url''
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.1/lib/ 
action_controller/url_rewriter.rb:88:in `rewrite''
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.1/lib/ 
action_controller/base.rb:622:in `url_for''
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.1.1/lib/ 
action_view/helpers/url_helper.rb:71:in `url_for''
(eval):17:in `release_notes_path''
app/views/release_notes/index.html.erb:15:in  
`_run_erb_47app47views47release_notes47index46html46erb''
app/views/release_notes/index.html.erb:10:in `each''
app/views/release_notes/index.html.erb:10:in  
`_run_erb_47app47views47release_notes47index46html46erb''
app/controllers/release_notes_controller.rb:7:in `index''
:1:in `initialize''

Thanks,

GA
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this should have a path
<%= link_to ''Show'', release_notes %></td>
like
<%= link_to ''Show'', release_note_path(release_notes)
%></td>
or whatever you defined in your routes
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Thanks for your answer.
I have not defined anything in the routes yet. If I did not do any changes,
shouldn''t the generated file work from the beginning?

GA




On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Thorsten Müller
<thorsten-1oxKqHKwyltBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>wrote:
>
> this should have a path
> <%= link_to ''Show'', release_notes %></td>
> like
> <%= link_to ''Show'', release_note_path(release_notes)
%></td>
> or whatever you defined in your routes
> >
>
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I have the same probleme, but the route is setted :
"map.ressources :myaction"

First all methods *_action_path don''t work (unknow by RoR) but they
were
created by scaffolding so it''s supposed to exist ??

And if I use the trick "release_note_path(release_notes)" instead of 
just use linkto the object, I have this f***cking error too :
"You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.to_sym"

I just found a topic talking about it 
(http://www.hostingrails.com/1029/undefined-method-to_sym-for-nilNilClass-error-)
but the guy seems to give up and put all links without linkto. But for 
my apps the probleme is every where and not just for one action.

Really strange ...


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Hi Benoit,

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 01:36 +0200, Benoit Molenda wrote:
> I have the same probleme, but the route is setted :
> "map.ressources :myaction"
You sure the spelling error above hasn''t found its way into your code?

Best regards,
Bill

> 5. run script/generate scaffold release_notes title:string
> version:string content:text
  Try like
./script/generate scaffold ReleaseNote title:string version:string 
content:text
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I have to stop drugs really ...
Last night I used something like ./script/generate scaffold nameS ...
If I put an S on the scaffold name, every thing is weel generated except 
the model who take an ''S''. I suppose that''s why RoR
failed so badly.

But it''s strange because ''controller''_path was
working instead of
edit_''controller''_path and
delete_''controller''_path were unknew by RoR.

Anyway, thank you for the help. I were not able to find this
''S'' by my
self.


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