Hello,
I am just curious as to why I can't put the following code in the
application controller:
if session[:date2use]
else
@get_latestbill = Prov.connection.select_all("
SELECT
prov_bills.bill_cycle_date AS cd
FROM prov_bills
ORDER BY bill_cycle_date DESC
LIMIT 1")
@latestbill = @get_latestbill.to_s.slice(2,10)
session[:date2use] = @latestbill
end
It gives me a "500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html" error.
However, when I use it within actions in my other controllers, it works
perfectly. It would be very helpful in my app if I can use this in my
Application Controller...
Is this inside a method at all? or just in the class?
I'm not sure about ruby, but in most Oo languages you can only put
declarations in a class. You can't put in code like that... you'd put
that in an initialize method or something.
Could you maybe clarify where/how you're using the code?
Also, why are you using the connection directly? That code looks like
it could be re-written as an active record find statement really
easily:
unless session[:date2use]
session[:date2use] = Prov.find(:all, :order =>
"bill_cycle_date").first.bill_cycle_date.slice(2,10)
end
=> this code might not be error free, i just typed it here...
