My guess is that the save is failing for you. Check @thing.errors. ..tony..
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:58 PM, George <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for the response Ashley, I posted canned code just as an > example. > You're right it probably does need .to_s but the point is that id is > nil after saving a new record. > I reckon it should be the id of the new row. (FWIW I'm using merb) > George > > On Nov 30, 2:52 pm, Ashley Moran <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:33 pm, George wrote: > > > > > def create(thing) > > > @thing = Thing.new(thing) > > > if @thing.save > > > render @thing.id # ==> nil > > > end > > > end > > > > Hi George > > > > Is this Rails? If so, I'm not sure if Rails' render method is designed > to be used this way. Haven't used Rails for a while, but I found a page[1] > that implies you need to do `render :text => @thing.id.to_s`. > > > > Does that help? > > > > Ashley > > > > [1]http://www.rubyonrailsexamples.com/rails-tips/rails-render/ > > > > --http://www.patchspace.co.uk/http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DataMapper" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<datamapper%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en.
