From: "warrene33@..." <warrene33@...>
Date: 2007-06-22T21:25:02+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question - undefined method `replace_session_timeout' for main:Object (NoMethodError)

On Jun 21, 10:58 pm, Morton Goldberg <m_goldb...@ameritech.net> wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:35 PM, warren...@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

Wow. That simple. Thanks
Warren