From: ronald braswell <rpbraswell@...>
Date: 2007-08-07T11:53:15+09:00
Subject: Re: ActiveRecord problems

On 8/6/07, James Rosten <seinfeld90@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the error I get:
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.3/lib/active_record/base.rb:1857:in
> `method_missing': undefined method `body=' for #<Article:0x1374418>
> (NoMethodError)
>         from buzz.rb:60:in `add'
>         from buzz.rb:98
>
> It spawns from this function:
>
>   def add
>     f = File.open Options.flags[:template]
>     @article = Article.new
>     @article.title = f.readline.gsub(/Title:/, '').strip
>     @article.author = f.readline.gsub(/Author:/, '').strip
>     @article.created_at = Date.today.to_s
>     @article.body = BlueCloth.new(f.read).to_html
>     @article.save
>     f.close
>     rhtml = ERB.new(File.open(Options.flags[:erb]).read, 0, "<>")
>     html = rhtml.result self.get_binding
>     f2 = File.open Options.flags[:file], "w"
>     f2.write html
>     f2.close
>     if Options.flags.index?
>       self.index
>     end
>     if Options.flags.archive?
>       self.archive
>     end
>   end
>
> I'm not really sure why it only happens for body and not title, author,
> or created_at.  Maybe it has to do with body being of type 'text' in the
> mysql database (title and author are 'varchar' and created_at is a
> 'date').
>
> If you need to see some more of the code, just give me the word.  Any
> and all help is appreciated.
>
> ~ Jamie // yankees26
> --
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>
>

Hi James,

What is the schema for articles in the DB to which you are connecting?
Please provide the model file article.rb.

Ron