I found a bug from April of 2010 referencing this, though I would imagine this should be fixed by now. I'm having this problem with 1.0.4 after the upgrade.
I'm going to start all over again and see if I can repeat the error; however, is this still a bug or did I mess up the installation I have? rake aborted! You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of ActiveRecord::Base. The error occurred while evaluating nil.[] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.