Re: [Rails-devel] 2.0RC1 NPE when laying tile #445 in 18AL

[Nikolas Co <at...@at...>]

Having never worked with Rails until a couple hours ago, I'm not sure of
the accuracy of my diagnosis.

That said, I think the problem is that tile 445 should have a Stop
associated with its Station but does not; that is the immediate cause of
the NPE. The reason it doesn't have the expected Stop is because Rails
associates Stops with hexes. If there's a way for a tile lay to create a
Stop, tile 445 isn't using it.

I don't see how this could have worked in recent history… Searching the
mailing list archives turned up a similar from 2011-05-18, subject "18AL -
Lumber Terminal Tile lay issue", which makes me think this issue has
existed for years.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 3:23 PM Nikolas Co <at...@at...> wrote:

> Hm, the web archive is displaying my attached text file instead of my
> message. In case the message is mangled elsewhere:
> (My understanding is that rails-devel is the venue for detailed bug
> reports, so here we go…)
>
> In a game of 18AL, when a company attempts to use the ability of the
> private "Brown & Sons Lumber Co." (B&SLC), namely laying tile #445, it
> results in a NullPointerException. This is using Rails 2.0RC1. Save file
> and logs attached (rails_out.txt is the stdout+stderr, where the NPE is
> logged).
>
> I've simply confirmed that this is reproducible and haven't investigated
> for likely causes.
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 11:41 PM Nikolas Co <at...@at...> wrote:
>
>> (My understanding is that rails-devel is the venue for detailed bug
>> reports, so here we go…)
>>
>> In a game of 18AL, when a company attempts to use the ability of the
>> private "Brown & Sons Lumber Co." (B&SLC), namely laying tile #445, it
>> results in a NullPointerException. This is using Rails 2.0RC1. Save file
>> and logs attached (rails_out.txt is the stdout+stderr, where the NPE is
>> logged).
>>
>> I've simply confirmed that this is reproducible and haven't investigated
>> for likely causes.
>>
>