[rspec-users] NameError when passing a URL helper to a method

[Nick Hoffman]

On 2008-12-04, at 19:56, Pat Maddox wrote:
> Nick Hoffman <nick at deadorange.com> writes:
>> On 2008-12-04, at 17:43, Nick Hoffman wrote:
>>> The only solution that I can think of is to do this:
>>> before :each do
>>>   @account_url = account_url
>>> end
>>> it_should_redirect_to 'the account page', @account_url
>>
>> Actually, that suggestion above of mine doesn't work. It fails with:
>>  You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
>>  The error occurred while evaluating nil.rewrite
>>  (eval):17:in `account_url'
>>
>> I thought of it while writing that last email, but didn't test it
>> before hitting send.
>> -Nick
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>
> It's the same as
>
> class Foo
>  @class_instance_variable = "blah"
>
>  def foo
>    puts @class_instance_variable
>  end
> end
>
> Foo.foo will print nothing, because @class_instance_variable is nil in
> the object instance.
>
> Anyway, I thought of an even cleaner way to do things than using a
> block, assuming you only care about calling one method:
>
> do_something(:blah_url_helper)
>
> def do_something(helper_name)
>  send(helper_name)
> end
>
> Pat

Hi Pat. That's a great suggestion. Here's what I ended up doing:
http://gist.github.com/32424

Thanks,
Nick