From: Adam Kennedy <lists@...>
Date: 2013-01-18T23:28:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding file directory automatically

Yeah thanks Alex for all your help!

After looking at your code, it worked fine. Brought up the correct 
information and also enabled me to bid on an item. However, I tried 
adding an if function too look something like this:

if item == 'david'
files = {'david' => '../Ablums/david.txt'}
end

As you can see, I've changed the location of the files and also the 
value from the form is also lowercase d for david.

The reason I am trying to do this is that I have 12 text files which 
hold different information about music Albums, I need a function go do 
something like this:

if item == form value
change files to {'david' => '../Albums/david.txt'}
else
if item == form value
change files to {'asher' => ../Albums/david.txt'}
end

(sorry for the pseudo)

So I need this function to go through 12 different item names and 
depending on which one was submitted through the form it needs to open a 
different file.

I keep receiving this error from my error_logs:
`initialize': can't convert nil into String (TypeError), referer: 
http://localhost:10000/cgi-bin/david.cgi

on line 14 where this is occuring, the line is File.open(files[item])

So basically it seems that my function is being skipped to line 14 then 
it can't find the 'files' and stops working. I know this is alot of 
writing and i appreciate the help alot. If you have any idea of what is 
going I would love to know :)

Adam K

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