The problem I am having, is when I try to create a new ticket, I get
the error:NoMethodError (undefined method `customer' for nil:NilClass):
app/models/ticket_mailer.rb:7:in `newticket'
app/controllers/tickets_controller.rb:84:in `create'Which I know simply put is telling me the customer doesn't exist,
because customer_id would be nil, so there is no association. But
there is.
No, it's telling you that the "ticket" variable (at line 7 of
ticket_mailer.rb) is nil, and NilClass objects don't have a "customer"
method.
class TicketMailer < ActionMailer::Base
def newticket(ticket)
ticket = @ticket
subject 'A new ticket has been created for you'
recipients ticket.customer.email
from 'helpdesk@stevenshenager.edu'
sent_on Time.now
end
I'd assume the problem is caused by the assignment in the first line
of the method; I'd guess it's meant to read:
@ticket = ticket
..because as it is, it doesn't make much sense to pass in a ticket
parameter and then immediately overwrite it with an instance variable.
