Blank Slates
Where you and Bill learn to avoid another common method_missing trap.
Once you get back from lunch, you find an unexpected problem waiting for you at the office. The developer who wrote the reporting application stumbled upon what he thinks is “the strangest bug ever”: the Computer class can’t retrieve information about the workstations’ displays. All the other methods work fine, but Computer#display doesn’t.
You try the display method in irb, and sure enough it fails:
| | my_computer = Computer.new(42, DS.new) |
| | my_computer.display # => nil |
Why does Computer#display return nil? You triple-check the code and the back-end data source, but everything seems to be fine. Bill has a sudden insight, and he lists the instance methods ...
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