Re: [Rails] Simple code...please help me in debugging

On 7 January 2012 19:03, Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Libber <amarnath.alapati@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     In my web application, The client has to enter a set of values and I
>> want to write them to a text file. This is what I am doing to achieve that.
>
>>   def create
>>         @s=Sollu.new
>>         @s.save
>>         afile=File.open("network.txt",'w')
>>         afile.write(@s.input)
>>         afile.close
>>         redirect_to sollus_path
>>      end
>
>> But after I enter the values from the the browser, nothing gets saved in the
>> file "network.txt".
>
> No kidding. Where above do you imagine that `@s.input` is magically
> acquiring a value?
>
> You should run through a basic Rails tutorial on using forms...

Also have a look at the Rails Guide on Debugging. That will show you
how to use ruby-debug to break into your code and inspect data and
follow the flow. Then you can break in before afile.write(@s.input)
and you would see whether @s.input has any content.

Colin

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