On Aug 27, 8:03 am, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/26 Ruby on Rails: Talk <[email protected]>: > > > I really have no idea why this is not working or not returning a zero > > value?! Any ideas please? > > A bit of a guess here but it may be that fact that this will attempt > to include some nil values in the sum as the result of the block will > be nil (I think) for values that do not match. Perhaps this is ok if > the first record is included in the sum but later ones not (so it is > performing value + nil) but fails if the first one is not included in > the sum (so it performs nil + value). Just a guess. >
That is indeed it - the value of an if statement where the condition is not met. One way of solving this would be to change the code to if ... item.spend else 0 end Fred --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
