From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-06-22T11:58:52+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question - undefined method `replace_session_timeout' for main:Object (NoMethodError)

On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:35 PM, warrene33@gmail.com wrote:

> #script for changing the sessionState timeout to 30 minutes
>
> f = File.open('C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\GT\web.config', 'r+')
> f.each do |line|
>   if  /sessionState/ =~line
>     offset=line.length
>     line=replace_session_timeout line
>     f.seek(-offset, IO::SEEK_CUR)
>     f.print line
>   end
> end
> f.close
>
> def replace_session_timeout line
>   int = /</=~line
>   spacer = line[0..int-1]
>   result=line.replace spacer + "<sessionState timeout=\"30\"/>\r\n"
> end
>
> When I run this script I get the following error:
>> ruby GT_SessionTimeout_1.rb
> GT_SessionTimeout_1.rb:7: undefined method `replace_session_timeout'
> for main:Object (NoMethodError)
> 	from GT_SessionTimeout_1.rb:4:in `each'
> 	from GT_SessionTimeout_1.rb:4
>> Exit code: 1
>
> I guess there is something wrong with my method call, but it looks
> syntactically correct to me.

The Ruby interpreter needs to see the definition of  
replace_session_timeout before it is called for the first time. Just  
move the definition above the body of the script.

Regards, Morton