Question

I’ve created a fairly simple new method in one of my models. However, when I go to the rails console to test it, I get the following error:

NoMethodError: undefined method 'get' for #<Class:0x3a5032fc>

I have saved the code, closed the rails console and then restarted, but I still get the NoMethod

class Race <ActiveRecord::Base
  def get(race_date,track_name,race_number)
    Race.where(:date =>race_date, :race_nbr => race_number, :track_id => (Track.where(:track_code => track_name)))
  end
end

In the console, I enter the following:

Race.get("2011-12-04", "BEL", 1)

which yields the NoMethodError:undefined method 'get'.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You defined an instance method of the class Race. Maybe you would have defined a class method like:

def self.get(race_date, track_name, race_number)
    track = Track.where(:track_code => track_name)
    Race.where(:date => race_date, :race_nbr => race_number, :track_id => track)
end

Then you can use Race.get.