[Rails] Newbie .. nil object and missing something

[Bill Walton]

Hi Kevin,

A couple of additional thoughts below...

Kevin Olbrich wrote:


> Actually, I can reproduce his problem using
> the standard cookbook app  that comes with
> InstantRails.  At least in development mode, if you
> request the .rhtml file, you will get it.  I don't know
> if production mode closes this hole or not.
>
> It does not seem to be anything specific to his own
> configuration.

Perfect!  Not speaking for anybody but me... thanks much for making the time 
to test that.  If the two of you could find a way to spend just a little 
additional time on this, it would be great to validate something.

To both of you, what exactly is your system configuration? For Robert, what 
about your friend's config.  I ask because for the past week I have, and 
still am, spending quite a bit of time testing / debugging a segment fault 
problem that's specific, at least, to Windows 2000 Pro SP3 and SP4.  Can't 
get the problem to display itself on XP.  That doesn't mean it's not a bug. 
It means that it's a bug that only shows itself in a specific config.  It 
either needs to be fixed, or if the effort to fix it for that config is not 
justified from a 'market share' perspective, then it at least needs to be 
documented.  It may be that both you and Robert are running the same config 
and that his friend is running a different one.  It would be good to 
validate that this is not config-specific.

Independent of the results above, it seems to me we need 'a call' from the 
Rails core team as to this behavior.  Is there a 'better' way than just 
going ahead and submitting it as a bug?

Best regards,
Bill

It may be that Rails is 'working as designed / intended' and there's 
something that needs to be *highlighted* in the documentation.  It may 
already be documented, for example, that this is allowed in development for 
reason 'X' and that before moving a Rails app into production, we need to do 
'A', 'B', and 'C'.