wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) when using respond_to?

Trying to get an otherwise working app (in Rails 2.0.2) up to speed with Rails 2.1.0 and Ruby 1.8.7, I have some broken code I can't seem to fix:

module Pathmaker   def self.append_features( base )     base.before_save do |model|       model.path = model.name.downcase.         gsub( /\ and\ /, '-' ).         gsub( /\ on\ /, '-' ).         gsub( /[^a-zA-Z0-9\-]/, '-' ).         gsub( /[\-]+/, '-' ).         gsub( /[\-]$/, '' ).         gsub( /^[\-]/, '' ) if model.respond_to?( :path )     end   end end

class ActiveRecord::Base   include Pathmaker end

  wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)     /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:102:in `sum'     /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:102:in `instance_method_already_implemented?'     /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:72:in `define_attribute_methods'     /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:71:in `each'     /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:71:in `define_attribute_methods'     /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:342:in `respond_to?'     /usr/local/apache2/rails/myapp/app/models/pathmaker.rb:11:in `append_features'

The online docs for respond_to? shows one required parameter, just like I'm doing:

So then I thought to check if Rails 2.1.0 has a different version of respond_to?. I tried to check my local rdocs, to be sure I was actually looking at version 2.1.0, but it seems Rails 2.1.0 didn't building rdocs when I installed it, nor will it when I reinstall it:

sudo gem install rails -v=2.1.0

Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/ Successfully installed rails-2.1.0 1 gem installed

Any clue, on either problem?

Thanks,

Ruby 1.8.7 is not backward compatible with Ruby 1.8.6. Rails 2.1 is updated to work with the 1.8.7 changes; Rails 2.0.2 is not.

Please use 1.8.6 :slight_smile:

jeremy

I was finally able to get rdocs for Rails 2.1 to build once I upgraded my rubygem install to version 1.2.