def send Considered Harmful (FAILSAFE error)

Posted on January 19, 2008
If your rails app mysteriously breaks just after adding some new functionality, with an error message like: 
Processing MessagingController#inbox (for 192.168.1.100 at 2008-01-19 11:02:45) [GET]
  Session ID: 17db90c03c03ebfee0c3ae4198900706
  Parameters: {"action"=>"inbox", "controller"=>"messaging"}
/!\ FAILSAFE /!\  Sat Jan 19 11:02:45 MST 2008
  Status: 500 Internal Server Error
  wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)

Chances are you just added a method “send” or similar to your rails app:

class MessagingController < AuthenticatedController
  def send
  end
end

This would, of course, override ruby’s default “send” behavior (an integral part of ruby, and rails).

Hat tip, Justin Ball – thx!

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