Trouble adding dynamic categories to menu

[Bryan]

My application controller has this:

after_filter :set_var

def set_var

  @categories = Categories.all

end

My navigation config has this (snippet):

primary.item :equipment, 'Equipment', '#', do |equip|

  @categories.each do |cat|

      equip.item :cats_id, cat.name, '#'

  end

end

But I always get a "undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass"

What am I doing wrong?  Is it just not possible to do this?  It seems the before_filter is not actually being called before the navigation script.

I tried again with the before_filter just setting @test = "Test", and making a menu item with that, and I got a similar error

Thanks for the help

[mjtko]

On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 10:31:08 UTC, Bryan wrote:

My application controller has this:

after_filter :set_var

[snip] 

What am I doing wrong?  Is it just not possible to do this?  It seems the before_filter is not actually being called before the navigation script.

Hi Bryan,

Are you sure you mean to use set_var  in an after_filter rather than a before_filter?

Cheers,

Mark.

[bbe...@highleadpetroleum.com]

That was it!  Sometimes it takes someone else looking at your code to notice something so obvious.  Thanks!