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Joe Smith

2008-Nov-27 03:59 UTC

You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

I get the following:

NoMethodError in Shoppingcart#my_shopping_cart

Showing app/views/shoppingcart/my_shopping_cart.rhtml where line #33
raised:

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

The line in question is

<% for shopping_cart_item in @shopping_cart.shopping_cart_items %>

Any suggestions?
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Philip Hallstrom

2008-Nov-27 04:03 UTC

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Re: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

> I get the following:
>
> NoMethodError in Shoppingcart#my_shopping_cart
>
> Showing app/views/shoppingcart/my_shopping_cart.rhtml where line #33
> raised:
>
> You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
> The error occurred while evaluating nil.shopping_cart_items
>
> The line in question is
>
> <% for shopping_cart_item in @shopping_cart.shopping_cart_items %>
>
> Any suggestions?
@shopping_cart is nil.  You''ll need to look at the my_shopping_cart  
action of the Shoppingcart controller to figure out why that''s not  
being set correctly.

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Joe Smith

2008-Nov-27 04:14 UTC

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Re: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

Thanks Philip.  I''m new here, can you advise on what I need to do prior
to get @shopping_cart set?  I''m not sure of the exact steps involved in
accessing the data in ROR.


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Joe Smith

2008-Nov-27 04:29 UTC

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Re: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

So I made a change and now I have:

NameError in Shoppingcart#my_shopping_cart

Showing app/views/shoppingcart/my_shopping_cart.rhtml where line #33 
raised:

undefined local variable or method `shopping_cart_item'' for 
Shopping_cart:Class

Not sure where to go from here.
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Joe Smith

2008-Nov-27 05:24 UTC

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Re: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

Here''s what I now have, not sure where to go from here:

NameError in Shoppingcart#my_shopping_cart

Showing app/views/shoppingcart/my_shopping_cart.rhtml where line #24 
raised:

undefined local variable or method `shopping_cart_item'' for 
Shopping_cart:Class
Extracted source (around line #24):

21:   <td valign="top" width="50%"></b>Traded
items: </b><br>
22:   <table>
23:   <% if @my_cart
24:     for shopping_cart_item in @my_cart.shopping_cart_items %>
25:     <tr>
26:       <t
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Daniel Bush

2008-Nov-27 05:39 UTC

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Re: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

On Nov 27, 4:24 pm, Joe Smith
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> Here''s what I now have, not sure where to go from here:
>
> NameError in Shoppingcart#my_shopping_cart
>
> Showing app/views/shoppingcart/my_shopping_cart.rhtml where line #24
> raised:
>
> undefined local variable or method `shopping_cart_item'' for
> Shopping_cart:Class
> Extracted source (around line #24):
>
> 21:   <td valign="top"
width="50%"></b>Traded items: </b><br>
> 22:   <table>
> 23:   <% if @my_cart
> 24:     for shopping_cart_item in @my_cart.shopping_cart_items %>
> 25:     <tr>
> 26:       <t
> --
What does your Shopping_cart class look like?
How is shopping_cart_items defined?


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Joe Smith

2008-Nov-27 05:47 UTC

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Re: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

class Shopping_cart < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :owner,
    :class_name => "user",
    :foreign_key => "owner_id"

  has_many :shopping_cart_items,
    :class_name => "shopping_cart_item",
    :finder_sql => "select ti.* from shopping_cart_items ti, 
shopping_carts t
        where ti.owner_id = t.owner_id"
end
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Daniel Bush

2008-Nov-27 06:44 UTC

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Re: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

On Nov 27, 4:47 pm, Joe Smith
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wrote:> class Shopping_cart < ActiveRecord::Base
>   belongs_to :owner,
>     :class_name => "user",
>     :foreign_key => "owner_id"
>
>   has_many :shopping_cart_items,
>     :class_name => "shopping_cart_item",
>     :finder_sql => "select ti.* from shopping_cart_items ti,
> shopping_carts t
>         where ti.owner_id = t.owner_id"
> end
> --
Your shopping_cart_item (singular) is probably a rails model and it
needs to start with a capital letter as it should be a ruby
constant.

When you define a model or any class in the normal way, you do
something like this
  class ShoppingCartItem <  ActiveRecord::Base
  ...
ShoppingCartItem is a ruby constant because it starts with capital (as
opposed to local variable or method name).
Also, you should probably use camel case instead of underscores for
constant names - that seems to be a convention but with rails it might
be a requirement (not completely sure as I''ve never done it that way).
You''d then refer to this class using class_name =>
''ShoppingCartItem''   .
Your underlying table can stay as shopping_cart_items, of course.

You could probably dispense with class_name altogether if
"has_many :shopping_cart_items" refers to model ShoppingCartItem.
Rails will infer that for you.

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Joe Smith

2008-Nov-27 07:45 UTC

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Re: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

Daniel,

thank you so much, now I have the message

NameError in Shoppingcart#my_shopping_cart

Showing app/views/shoppingcart/my_shopping_cart.rhtml where line #25 
raised:

uninitialized constant Shopping_cart::ShoppingCartItems
Extracted source (around line #25):

23:   <% if @my_cart
24:
25:     for shopping_cart_item in @my_cart_items.shopping_cart_items %>
26:     <tr>

My shoppingcart.rb is

class Shopping_cart < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :owner,
    :class_name => "user",
    :foreign_key => "owner_id"

  has_many :shopping_cart_items,
    :class_name => "ShoppingCartItems",
    :finder_sql => "select ti.* from shopping_cart_items ti, 
shopping_carts t where ti.owner_id = t.owner_id"
end


and my shoppingcartitem.rb defines

class ShoppingCartItem

I feel like I''m close, but I can''t figure this out.  Can you
figure out
the missing link?
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Joe Smith

2008-Nov-27 08:11 UTC

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Re: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

I got it working, thanks for your help
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Daniel Bush

2008-Nov-27 08:20 UTC

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Re: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!

On Nov 27, 7:11 pm, Joe Smith
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wrote:> I got it working, thanks for your help
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You can name your files like:  shopping_cart_item.rb but define the
class inside as ''ShoppingCartItem''.  Similarly for
shopping_cart.rb
and class ShoppingCart.
Glad it helped.

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