Can't convert Range in to Integer (Ruby on Rails)

Question

I am using Ruby (1.9.3) and Rails (3.2.2). I have tasks file which contains a bunch of fake data to be populated to my database.

Here is some part of the task that I believe is causing the problem

#Create random Tender and populate the db
     20.times do |n|
      title  = "#{Faker::Company.bs()} tender "
      company_name = Faker::Company.name
      opening_date=Time.at(rand * Time.now.to_i)
      closing_date=Time.at(opening_date + ( 8*7*24*60*60)) #add 8 weeks to the deadline
      bid_amount= rand(10000..100000)
      description=Faker::Lorem.paragraph(sentence_count = 3)


      Tender.create!(title: title,
                   company_name: company_name,
                   opening_date: opening_date,
                   closing_date: closing_date,
           bid_amount: bid_amount    ,
           bid_amount: bid_amount    ,
           description: description )
    end

It works fine with dev but only the above part is not executed on production database. I am using gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.5' on dev. and

gem 'pg', '0.12.2' on production (heroku)

When I run

git push heroku
$ heroku pg:reset SHARED_DATABASE --confirm myapp
$ heroku run rake db:migrate
$ heroku run rake db:populate

db:populate throws an error that says **can't covert Range to Integer.**

Any ideas what the problem might be?

EDIT: The data type of bid_amount is decimal

Chirantan · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-15 16:03:59Z

8

Your production ruby version is not 1.9.3. It is probably 1.8.7

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [universal-darwin11.0]
$ irb
>> rand(10000..100000)
TypeError: can't convert Range into Integer
    from (irb):1:in `rand'
    from (irb):1
>> exit
$ rvm use 1.9.3
Using /Users/chirantan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0
$ irb
1.9.3p0 :001 > rand(10000..100000)
 => 37036

Install ruby 1.9.3 on production and the rand method should work as expected.

answered Jun 15, 2012 at 16:03

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11 Comments

MBHNYC Over a year ago

Interesting, the rand() function reference doesn't mention it accepts a range at all.. ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Kernel.html#method-i-rand

Chirantan Over a year ago

If you read the first line in that description, it says "If max is Range, returns a pseudorandom number where range.member(number) == true."

WowBow Over a year ago

Thank you for your response. How do you install ruby on heroku even I dont know a way to know the version on the production server. I thought it is already installed on heroku.Sorry, I am learning ruby.

WowBow Over a year ago

And I am using Git on windows

WowBow Over a year ago

any ways thanks. blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/5/9/…

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