Post the contents of versions_controller.rb, there must be something wrong there. Strip out some of the unneeded stuff if it is more than a few tens of lines. If you do change it, make sure that it still fails, and that query still works. Colin
2009/5/22 Marek N. <[email protected]> > > Colin Law wrote: > > To check that the view is interpreting this you could try <%= "value is > > #...@mydate}" %>. If you see the fixed text then it is just that @mydate > > is > > not getting setup for some reason. Possibly a typo that you just can't > > get > > your eye on. > > > > What do you mean by "I can even put garbage in the controller such as > > "a;lskjdfj" and it > > doesn't give me a compile error in the controller." > > > > Colin > > > > 2009/5/22 Marek N. <[email protected]> > > Hello Colin, > > That is a good idea for a test case and the fixed text does appear, but > not the variable's value. What kind of typo could cause this? The odd > thing is that I have a "def query" below it that is able to pass values > to "query.rhtml" without any issues... > > As for your question, I have two rhtml files, index and query. If I put > meaningless junk in "def query" I get the following interpretation error > (as expected): > > undefined local variable or method `laksjdf' for > #<VersionController:0xf6993310> > > if I copy paste the same junk text into "def index", it does not produce > an error (odd right?). This seems to indicate that > version_controller.rb is not interpreting the code in "def index" for > some reason, but is interpreting it in the "def query" which is directly > below it. This is at least consistent with why it is not showing the > value for @mydate. I don't know enough about ruby to figure out what > could cause this sort of behaviour. > > Thanks, > Mark > > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

