Hank Beaver » has_keys? http://www.hankbeaver.com Open-source, Internet technologist who works for MaxMedia located in Atlanta, GA, USA Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:20:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Calling initialize in ActiveRecord model causes nil.has_keys? error. http://www.hankbeaver.com/index.php/2008/09/02/calling-initialize-in-activerecord-model-causes-nilhas_keys-error/ http://www.hankbeaver.com/index.php/2008/09/02/calling-initialize-in-activerecord-model-causes-nilhas_keys-error/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:24:35 +0000 hbeaver http://1000fires.com/wordpress/?p=43 When instantiating a model class this error occurs:

instance = MyModel.new
NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.has_key?

This is rectified by placing a super within model class.

def initialize
super
logger.debug("initialize VirtualMta: #{self.class}")
end
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