Bug #11103: Reassignment in if block that is not ran, causes variable to become nil

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08 revision 45883) [universal.x86_64-darwin14]
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN

[sigsve (Sigurd Berg Svela)]

I came across a situation where, when reassigning a variable, inside an if statement that is evaluated to false, causes the variable to become nil.
I have included the code to reproduce the problem as a file.

Changing the line

variable = [variable]

to

@variable = [@variable]

seems to work as a temporary workaround, but this still seems to me as a pretty weird bug.

[recursive-madman (Recursive Madman)]

Ruby is behaving as it should here. Your confusion is between local variables and method calls.
Before that 'if' block mock_input resolves to the "mock_input" method of your class. The 'if' block then declares a variable with the same name, shadowing the method.

[marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected