Question

I know this is probably rather trivial but I have had a look at previous questions and I’ve tried them but they still issued an error unfortunately :s

My issue is the following, I have an html.erb file and I want a certain body text to be display given a condition or another if it is false

I have

<% if !@selector.nil do %>

more code goes here

<% end %>

I have tried many combinations but the most frequent error i keep getting is

You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.nil

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, this is most likely something very easy but I can’t find my way through it!

Answer 1

There’s no .nil method. You’re thinking of .nil?. It should be !@selector.nil?.

Or you could get the same result from if @selector and it will evaluate to be the same as if !@selector.nil?. This is assuming you not referring to a boolean.