On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:24 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Peter Fitzgibbons >> <peter.fitzgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Folks, >>> >>> This gist http://gist.github.com/261791 has an example user.rb, >>> user_spec.rb >>> At runtime, this snippet fails >>> >>> u = User.find(123) >>> u.update_with_profile({...}) >>> The error occurred while evaluating nil.select): >>> app/models/user.rb:6:in `moderator_fields' >>> app/models/user.rb:118:in `update_with_profile' >>> >>> The spec passes all-green. >>> >>> Could you tell me how this might be ? >> >> The user in the spec comes from new_with_profile(), which sets instance >> variables on the User class. >> The user in the console comes from find(), and those ivars are not yet >> set. > > Also - @params in the User class (in the class methods) is not the same > @params in the User instances (in update_with_profile). > HTH, > David
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