From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T05:55:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Undefined Method `free'

Mike Keller wrote:
[snip]
> However whenever I run the script I get the following
> error:
> csvadd.rb:27: undefined method `free' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
>        from csvadd.rb:12:in `with_db'
>        from csvadd.rb:21
[snip]
>   res = db.query('load data local infile \'/full/path/to/csvdoc.csv\'
> into table mytable fields teminated by \',\' lines teminated by \'\n\'
> ignore 1 lines')
>
>   res.free
[snip]

What that means is that on line 27, you are calling "free" on a nil
object.
Which means that 'res' is a nil object.
Which means that db.query(...) is returning nil.