I'm getting an exception in the following piece of code. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how I can prevent it?
def self.find_by_data(data = {})
where(name_canonical: data['name'].downcase.gsub(/\s+/, ''),
fuel: data['fuel'],
trim_canonical: data['trim'].downcase.gsub(/\s+/, ''),
year: data['year']).first
end
Exception:
/Users/charlie/Documents/WIP/projectx/ar_models.rb:35:in `find_by_data': undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)ooooooooooooooooooooooooo| ETA: 0:00:00
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/activerecord-4.0.0/lib/active_record/relation/delegation.rb:36:in `block in find_by_data'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/activerecord-4.0.0/lib/active_record/associations/collection_proxy.rb:845:in `block in scoping'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/activerecord-4.0.0/lib/active_record/relation.rb:270:in `scoping'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/activerecord-4.0.0/lib/active_record/associations/collection_proxy.rb:845:in `scoping'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/activerecord-4.0.0/lib/active_record/relation/delegation.rb:36:in `find_by_data'
from /Users/charlie/Documents/WIP/projectx/ar_models.rb:132:in `create_or_assign_existing'
from /Users/charlie/Documents/WIP/projectx/app.rb:230:in `block (2 levels) in work'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/activerecord-4.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:294:in `with_connection'
from /Users/charlie/Documents/WIP/projectx/app.rb:80:in `block in work'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/parallel-0.6.3/lib/parallel.rb:319:in `call'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/parallel-0.6.3/lib/parallel.rb:319:in `call_with_index'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/parallel-0.6.3/lib/parallel.rb:179:in `block (3 levels) in work_in_threads'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/parallel-0.6.3/lib/parallel.rb:326:in `with_instrumentation'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/parallel-0.6.3/lib/parallel.rb:177:in `block (2 levels) in work_in_threads'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/parallel-0.6.3/lib/parallel.rb:171:in `loop'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/parallel-0.6.3/lib/parallel.rb:171:in `block in work_in_threads'
from /Users/charlie/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/parallel-0.6.3/lib/parallel.rb:62:in `block (2 levels) in in_threads'
When you see "undefined method ...
for nil:NilClass" it means you have a nil
value you're trying to call the method on.
In this case, something like data['name']
is not defined.
To make this more bullet-proof:
data['name'].to_s.downcase.gsub(/\s+/, '')
This converts everything to string to start with. nil.to_s
is an empty string by default, so it's safe.
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