Re: [Rails] Re: nil object - very strange behavior

2009/11/24 MaD <mayer.dominik@gmail.com>:
>
> maybe i'm wrong, but it could be something like the following:
>
> if your users (=hits) are User.find_by_ferret and thus of the class
> User. a user.user would return nil, like in this line:
>  users.concat(hits.collect { |hit| hit.user }).uniq!
> now you have a collection of nils and try to call nil.info on them.
>
> in any case set a debugger and take a deeper look into your variables.
>

You may find the rails guide on debugging useful. In particular how
to use ruby-debug. (google rails guides)

Colin

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