Hi!
In order to respect DRY principles, I had to regroup two controller in one. To sum up, I have to build one controller which can make a 'simple' page and this same page with other features when a second id param is entered in the url.
This is why, I modified the file 'routes.rb' so the action could access to 2 params: :id and :tuto_id
In the controller, only :id is mandatory I would like to control if the url contains the param :tuto_id
I wrote the controller: unless params[:tuto_id].nil? if Tuto.exists? params[:tuto_id] @tuto = Tuto.find(params[:tuto_id]).......
This could be simplified:
@tuto = Tuto.find(params[:tuto_id]) if params[:tuto_id]
(This will raise an exception if an invalid tuto_id is passed)
And in the view when I want to show more objects when the url contains params[:tuto_]id <% unless @tuto.nil? %>......
The nil? test is unecessary. You can just use <% if @tuto %>. But what you have should work fine.
When the url contains just the params :id, there is no problems but when it contains the two params, I have the error: Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if you really wanted the id of nil, use object_id
Is my strategy the right one ? Does this error refers to a another problem ?
The error is coming from somewhere else. Look at the backtrace information in the error report. It looks like you're probably using @tuto.id somewhere, but @tuto is nil.