Resolve Fixnum error

Question

I have a parameter (params[:authorization]) that comes from the URL, as you can see:

authorization_selected = params[:authorization]
new_parcel = params[:new_parcel].to_i

puts authorization_selected.class (in the console show type String)
puts new_parcel.class (in the console show type Fixnum)

In my controller, have:

@portability = Portability.new
@portability.employee_id = authorization_selected.employee_id

However this returns an error:

undefined method `employee_id' for 3:Fixnum

I need that both was integer. How do it?

Answer 1

You are calling the employee_id method on authorization_selectedwhich is a String and does not provide this method. Obviously this does not work. You probably want to do

@portability = Portability.new
@portability.employee_id = authorization_selected

assuming that params[:employee] contains the employee_id and Portability is an ActiveModel or an ActiveRecord.

Perhaps you can change your form that the value can be assigned through the initializer?