Hello All,
I am new to ruby programming, Problem is -
In my controller -
I defined a private method like :private def _list(searchBy, moreResults = false)
# another code goes here................. @items_by_language = {} @items.each do |item| @items_by_language[item.language]= if @items_by_language[item.language] == nil @items_by_language[item.language] << item end
end
# This @items_by_language is a hash which I am accessing in my view named list.html.erb But I get following error NoMethodError in Home#list
Showing home/list.html.erb where line #6 raised:
You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.each
Extracted source (around line #6):
list.html.erb code -----------------------
<%@items_by_language.each do |key,val|%> <%val.each do |items|%>
//////code performed on @items_by_language hash variable
<%end%> <%end%>