From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2011-09-23T14:25:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Undefined method NoMethodError whaaat

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El 22/09/2011 23:50, "Roland S." <xidusmon@gmail.com> escribi=F3:
>
> Hey, I am a college student, I'm rewritting a psychology program from
> Chipmunk basic to ruby,  It was all going fine until I had to write the
> scoring code. Basically what happens is a bunch of subroutines are
> called randomly and then the answers are stored in a global variable
> $scores ( which is initialized via $score =3D Array.new(6) {Array.new(3)
> {0}} ). Usually I get about a few in, usually the second falsecat (the
> code I posted on paste bin along with the scoring subroutine) I get an
> error message:
> exp.rb:93:in `scoring': undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
> (NoMethodError)
>  from exp.rb:105:in `falsecatsub'
>  from exp.rb:177
>  from exp.rb:173:in `each'
>  from exp.rb:173
>
> But I have no idea what it means! I thought maybe my numbering variable
> was broken and returning nothing hence the [] or that time had a naming
> conflict but I tried all that and... nothing. Here is the code!
> http://pastebin.com/yMNbTyVF Have fun, and thanks!

What that error means is that you are calling method [] on nil. Inside
scoring the only references to [] are $score[n][] so that means that either
$score is nil or that it doesn't have any element at position n. You could
try to put this line

p $score

at the beginning of the scoring method to make sure what you have there.

Jesus.

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