'self.find_for' problem with Ruby Foundations: Class Methods

Question

I can't get past 4:34 of this video. I don't understand what is going wrong. I'm running this in a terminal on Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit. I wish I could copy and paste my terminal, but this forum won't display it correctly. Assume I've followed the video exactly to 4:34. When I use the find.for method, it returns nil.

I have no idea why it's nil. Here is my bank_account.rb code:

class BankAccount

def self.create_for(first_name, last_name)
    @accounts ||= []
    @accounts << BankAccount.new(first_name, last_name)
end

def self.find_for(first_name, last_name)
    @accounts.find{|account| account.full_name == "#{@first_name} #{@last_name}"}
end

def initialize(first_name, last_name)
    @balance = 0
    @first_name = first_name
    @last_name = last_name
end

def full_name
    "#{@first_name} #{@last_name}"
end

def deposit(amount)
    @balance += amount
end

def withdraw(amount)
    @balance -= amount
end

def balance
    @balance
end

end

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1 · 2014-07-21T02:59:43Z

July 21, 2014 2:59am

Thank you Mark. The method self.find_for in your code had first_name and last_name as local variables, not instance variables. Sorry I didn't see that at first.

    def self.find_for(first_name, last_name)
        @accounts.find{|account| account.full_name == "#{first_name} #{last_name}"}
    end

not

    def self.find_for(first_name, last_name)
        @accounts.find{|account| account.full_name == "#{@first_name} #{@last_name}"}
    end

Answer 2 · 2014-07-21T02:28:34Z

July 21, 2014 2:28am

I'm trying my best to paste it. The problem is not that I can't copy it, it's this forum. Every time I post my copied terminal code, it appears differently. This forum modifies it. I'll try some different ways to see if I can get it on here correctly.

Answer 3 · 2014-07-21T02:30:30Z

July 21, 2014 2:30am

vimmington@vimmington-G41D3:~$ cd Desktop

vimmington@vimmington-G41D3:~/Desktop$ cd Source

vimmington@vimmington-G41D3:~/Desktop/Source$ cd methods

vimmington@vimmington-G41D3:~/Desktop/Source/methods$ irb

irb(main):001:0> load './bank_account.rb'

=> true

irb(main):002:0> BankAccount.create_for("Bob", "Dylan")

=> [ # < BankAccount:0x8583ccc @balance=0, @first_name="Bob", @last_name="Dylan" > ]

irb(main):003:0> BankAccount.create_for("Some", "Guy")

=> [ # < BankAccount:0x8583ccc @balance=0, @first_name="Bob", @last_name="Dylan" >, # < BankAccount:0x858b01c @balance=0, @first_name="Some", @last_name="Guy" > ]

irb(main):004:0> bank_account = BankAccount.find_for("Some", "Guy")

=> nil

irb (main):005:0 > bank_account.deposit(100)

NoMethodError : undefined method `deposit' for nil : NilClass

f rom (irb) : 5

f rom /usr/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

irb(main):006:0>

Answer 4 · 2014-07-21T02:37:26Z

July 21, 2014 2:37am

Ok so there, I've added a bunch of random spaces so that this forum won't post the output differently. I'm not sure why the 2nd and 3rd to last lines are different, but aside from the added spaces, they're accurate. So, you'll see that the problem starts when bank_account = BankAccount.find_for("Some", "Guy") returns nil. Thank you for your help!

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