Re: [Rails-devel] [newbie] null pointer in PublicCompany?

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

On Feb 17, 2008 9:57 AM, Michał Bażyński <ba...@tl...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>    I have recently played a game of 18AL, found 4 or 5 bugs, and decided
> to try to see if I can fix some of them... I downloaded sources from
> cvs, and kept on getting a NullPointer right after clicking 'New Game'.


Welcome!   If you read through the archives for the last two weeks,
you'll see a
few posts that will shed light on this. There's some work being done
to get 18EU
up and running that has likely destabilized things a bit.

I'm not aware of this particular NPE happening during the last release
version, so
it's likely to be recent commits that did this.

> So my question: what am I doing wrong? Did I checkout code I wasn't
> supposed to, and I should check out a branch of a stable version (how?)?
> Or is the code fine as it is and my NullPointer is me doing something
> wrong along the way?  I am a bit reluctant to try fixing anything while
> not understatnding what's the deal with this NullPointer...

It sounds like you didn't do anything wrong. Just find which variable is
unexpectedly null, and see if you can put together a patch that fixes it. If
you want to send us a stack trace, that will help significantly more than a
code segment.

>
> Best regards,
>    Mike Bazynski
>


---Brett.