Question

I created drop down menu layouts as follows.

 <select name="search" id="search" >
            <option value="0">Please select</option>
            <option value="1">Name</option>
            <option value="2">Trainer</option>
            <option value="3">Venue</option>
            <option value="4">Date</option>
           </select>

    <div id="div_to_be_updated" style="float:right"></div>

        <%= observe_field 'search',
        :update => 'div_to_be_updated',
        :url => {:controller => 'events', :action=> 'find' },
        :with => "'is_delivery_address=' + escape(value)" %>

Then I created find method in my controller.

def find

if params[:is_delivery_address] == "1" || "2" || "3" 

render :partial => 'layouts/new_search' 

else
 render :partial => 'layouts/nothing' 

end
end

Then I created partial called _new_search.

<span style="text-align: right">
<% form_tag "/events/find_search" do %>
<%= text_field_tag :search_string%>
<%= submit_tag "search" %>
<%end%>
</span>

Again I created find_search method in controller.

def find_search
events=Event.find(:all, :conditions=>["venue = ?", params[:search_string]])
end

Then I created view page. But when I searched somehting it will give exception.

NoMethodError in Events#find_search

Showing app/views/events/find_search.html.erb where line #10 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

What should I do? Can anybody help me>

Answer 1

Not sure if this is it – but the following line has a bug

if params[:is_delivery_address] == "1" || "2" || "3" 

this will always be true, since if params[:is_delivery_address] != "1" then the result will be “2” (non-nil – ie true).

Try irb to check:

> params = {:is_delivery_address => "0" }
> params[:is_delivery_address] == "1" || "2" || "3" 
=> "2"