From: khaines@...
Date: 2006-08-28T23:36:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie : assign a value to a variable...

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Nicolas Blanco wrote:

> I tried :
> per_page = @params[:per_page].to_i > 0 ? @params[:per_page] : 20
>
> but in this case if @params[:per_page] = 'blahblah' it works, I get 20
> in per_page but if @params[:per_page] = 6 or another integer I get :
> undefined method `>' for false:FalseClass
>
> from Rails...

???

Can someone tell me what horrible thing Rails is doing to the language, 
there?

How is @params[:per_page].to_i becoming false?


Kirk Haines