Ruby on Rails

On 28 March 2011 22:02, John Merlino <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> If y is nothing (empty), the error occurs. If y is an integer the error
> doesn't occur.

yup. "divide by zero" will do that...

> Doesn't this line take all non numbers like empty and
> convert it to integer 0:
> result.to_s == 'NaN' ? 0 : result
> If that's the case, then why do I get the error?

Unfortunately, your code is breaking before there, and I doubt it
would work as you expect even if it did (I don't think you can be sure
the integer would be 'NaN')

Try this instead:

def divide_numbers(x, y)
  (x / y) rescue 0
end

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