On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, David A. Black wrote:

> Hi --
> 
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 nobu.nokada / softhome.net wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > At Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:59:15 +0900,
> > David A. Black wrote in [ruby-core:03293]:
> > > The error messages look like this (minus dates and IP addresses):
> > > 
> > >   Premature end of script headers: submitrcr.rb
> > >   (eval):3:in `__send__': undefined method `downcase' 
> > >     for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
> > >   from (eval):3:in `gsub!'
> > >   from /usr/local/lib/httpd/htdocs/rcrchive/utils.rb:85:in `initialize',
> > > 
> > > I don't understand the __send__, or the eval, neither of which are in
> > > my code.  
> > 
> > How is that @text obtained?  It feels a delegator or similar.
> 
> It's just a string, I think.  Its history is:
> 
>   CGI input => saved as a field in an RCR object =>
>   filtered through "Cleaner" object
> 
> @text is just an i.v. inside the Cleaner (and there's a #text reader
> method for it).  

Actually.... as Gabriele Renzi pointed out on IRC, it may be a
CGI::QueryExtension::Value object, which I think is a delegator.

I'll try to do more testing.  


David

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