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Thomas Slater
5,094 PointsDestroying Friendships Error
Hello, I'm getting an error I can't quite put my finger on and I've been trying to figure it out for a while today. It's not an error I've seen before, and I seem to run into just about every one out there.
I'm about 4 minutes into the rails adding state: destroying features video and I'm getting this error when running the user_friendship_test.rb
test: #delete_mutual_friendship! should delete the mutual friendship. (UserFrien
dshipTest):
RuntimeError: Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if you really wa
nted the id of nil, use object_id
test/unit/user_friendship_test.rb:124:in `block (2 levels) in <class:UserFri
endshipTest>'
Here's the code from the test:
context "#delete_mutual_friendship!" do
setup do
UserFriendship.request users(:baggins), users(:gandalf)
@friendship1 = users(:baggins).user_friendships.where(friend_id: users(:gandalf).id).first
@friendship2 = users(:gandalf).user_friendships.where(friend_id: users(:baggins).id).first
end
should "delete the mutual friendship" do
assert_equal @friendship2, @friendship1.mutual_friendship
@friendship1.delete_mutual_friendship!
assert !UserFriendship.exists?(@friendships2.id)
end
end
context "on destroy" do
setup do
UserFriendship.request users(:baggins), users(:gandalf)
@friendship1 = users(:baggins).user_friendships.where(friend_id: users(:gandalf).id).first
@friendship2 = users(:gandalf).user_friendships.where(friend_id: users(:baggins).id).first
end
should "delete the mutual friendship" do
@friendship1.destroy
assert !UserFriendship.exists?(@friendship2.id)
end
end
end
from user_friendship
after_destroy :delete_mutual_friendship!
....
def delete_mutual_friendship!
mutual_friendship.delete
end
end
2 Answers
Thomas Slater
5,094 PointsI changed - assert !UserFriendship.exists?(@friendships2.id)
to - assert !UserFriendship.exists?(@friendships2.object_id)
and it runs without errors, but I have a feeling this isn't what I want.
Thomas Slater
5,094 PointsRight. I see what I did there. @Friendship not @friendships.