On 19 Sep 2008, at 08:36, Tarscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> self.start indeed returns a nil value but the strange this is that it
> is when I look at the self.attributes -> start in the debugger it is
> correctly filled in. Is start a name you can't use in rails?
>
Oh, you may be running into an edge case when running under the
debugger. Old versions of rdebug would define their own start method.
Fred
> Regards,
> Stijn
>
> On 18 sep, 23:21, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sep 18, 10:19 pm,Tarscher<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> This results in You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
>>> The error occurred while evaluating nil.<=
>>
>> It's not telling you that self is nil (which as you point out it
>> isn't
>> usually), it's telling you that self.start is nil.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>>
>>> The strange thing is that self is definatly not nil? Is this a
>>> problem
>>> with DateTime.now()?
>>
>>> regards,
>>> Stijn
>>
>>
> >
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