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why is it that line 3 of this code will get an error:

“You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occured while evaluating nil.Workstation_name”

1:

Inventory Files


2:
3: <%= @inventoryfile.Workstation_name %>
4: Location:<%= @workstationfile.Location %>

pls…help!!!111

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brenda wrote:

why is it that line 3 of this code will get an error:

“You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occured while evaluating nil.Workstation_name”

1:

Inventory Files


2:
3: <%= @inventoryfile.Workstation_name %>
4: Location:<%= @workstationfile.Location %>

pls…help!!!111

If Ruby tries to evaluate nil.Workstation_name, it means that
@workstationfile=nil.
In other words, this instance variable doesn’t exist. You may be missing
some initialization…