undefined method `get' for nil:NilClass about dbf HOT 5 CLOSED

The only place .get is called in the DBF code is when trying to read a memo
field. I'm guessing you are using a dbf file that should have a memo file,
but the memo file is missing. Could that be the case?

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Stephen Silber [email protected]:

I have written a rake task to import from a dbf file into my current rails
application but have run into a strange bug.

desc "Import brothers"
task :import_brothers => :environment do
bro_db = DBF::Table.new("bro.dbf")
bros = bro_db.find(:all)

bros.each do |brother|
    b = Brother.new
        b.last_name             = brother["L_NAME"] unless brother["L_NAME"].nil?

I receive the error undefined method `get' for nil:NilClass

The strange part is that I can p bros.first and see that there is a column
named L_NAME and I created a fresh rails project with the same gemfile and
same schema for "brother" and it ran fine. Any ideas?

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That sounds likely, could you possibly elaborate a little bit on how I can fix this situation? I don't regularly work with DBF but it's the only format my database is available in

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The memo file should be the same name as the dbf file, but with an
extension of .dbt or .fpt instead of .dbf. Make sure the file is in the
same directory with the .dbf file.

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Stephen Silber
[email protected]:

That sounds likely, could you possibly elaborate a little bit on how I can
fix this situation? I don't regularly work with DBF but it's the only
format my database is available in

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I just released v2.0.4 which forces memo fields to return nil if the memo file is missing.

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Very helpful, thank you so much!

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