failure in model#new - I don't get it

rubyonrails-talk
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Here's my error:

NameError (undefined local variable or method `gmap_full_address' for #<Class:0x7f9bae66e788>):   app/models/address.rb:12

here's the model:

class Address < ActiveRecord::Base

attr_accessible :name, :address1, :address2, :city, :state_id, :country_id, :postal_code,                   :carrier_id, :time_zone, :gmap_lat, :gmap_long

...

  after_save {     logger.info "attempting geocode retrieval for #{gmap_full_address}" <------------------     result = get_geocode(gmap_full_address)     gmap_lat = result[:latitude]     gmap_long = result[:longitude]     save   }

  def gmap_full_address     address1 + ", " + city + ", " + state.abbrev   end

I don't understand why it's saying gmap_full_address is indefined.

Anyone know why?

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Because you've used the block form of after_save, so self inside that block is the class itself, not a particular instance

Fred