HELP -- I'm missing something

rubyonrails-talk
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in application controller

@upcomingevents = Event.all

in application layout

<% @upcomingevents.each do |upcomingevent| %> <%= upcomingevent.name %> <% end %>

there are events.. but i get an error of

ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass) on line #77 of app/views/layouts/application.html.erb: 74: <%= content_tag :p, msg, :class => key, :id => key -%> 75: <% end -%> 76: 77: <% @upcomingevents.each do |upcomingevent| %> 78: <%= upcomingevent %> 79: <% end %> 80: <div id="content" class="content">

2

It would guess that Event.all returned nil. Did you mean to say Event.find(:all) ?

3

I;ve tried both ways of selecting the data.. and the log shows select * from events.. and doing the find in the console works fine.

4

Drrr make a function.. and call it with a before filter..

5

James Englert wrote:

It would guess that Event.all returned nil. Did you mean to say Event.find(:all) ?

In recent versions of Rails, those two are equivalent. (Of course, we don't know what version the OP is using...)

Best,

6

In this sort of situation where one cannot see the cause of the problem by inspection I use ruby-debug to break into the controller and the view to check the value of variables. This usually gives useful clues.

Colin

7

Well since Event.all should have returned an array and not thrown an error, my guess is there is a problem with your model/database. Go into the terminal and open up a session using script/console, at the prompt enter Event.all and see what it returns...