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Ruby Ruby Foundations Methods Class Methods

Posted by Jamil Velji
Jamil Velji
7,772 Points

I get 'NameError: undefined local variable or method' whenever I try to run BankAccount.find_for

After creating an account in the BankAccount class, I then try to run the find_for method and it just returns the below errors:

NameError: undefined local variable or method `first_name' for #<BankAccount:0x007fcfda04a338>
    from /Users/jamilvelji/Ruby_Testing/Source/methods/bank_account.rb:19:in `full_name'
    from /Users/jamilvelji/Ruby_Testing/Source/methods/bank_account.rb:9:in `block in find_for'
    from /Users/jamilvelji/Ruby_Testing/Source/methods/bank_account.rb:9:in `each'
    from /Users/jamilvelji/Ruby_Testing/Source/methods/bank_account.rb:9:in `find'
    from /Users/jamilvelji/Ruby_Testing/Source/methods/bank_account.rb:9:in `find_for'
    from (irb):5
    from /Users/jamilvelji/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin/irb:11:in `<main>'
Kang-Kyu Lee
Kang-Kyu Lee
52,045 Points
Kang-Kyu Lee
Kang-Kyu Lee
52,045 Points

This is for Ruby Foundations -- not with Rails -- however, Jamil, can we see your bank_account.rb file?

1 Answer

David Curtis
David Curtis
11,301 Points
David Curtis
David Curtis
11,301 Points

can you post the code from your controller? did you define the first_name variable? is it "@first_name" or something else?